Comment 27 for bug 234466

Until yesterday night when it started to reapper, it had been a very long time since last time I experienced this bug.
I recently upgraded to 9.04, so I guess the problem came back in the new Jaunty packages.

I tried the ttyS0 hack suggested by Isabella and it worked like a charm on my ThinkPad X60t - thanks! :)
Now, I'll just put this in my .xinitrc

(while ((1)); do
  echo -x "\x03" > /dev/ttyS0
  sleep 10
 done
)&