Comment 7 for bug 318494

First, note about my previous comment. I CAN move the mouse. Clicking does nothing, but the cursor moves.

I restarted with the options as mentioned above (default settings except for DontZap). I did this twice. Both times I was able to type one key before the lockup. The first time I just typed a character. Pretty boring. The second time, I did the Ctrl+Alt+Backspace. This restarted GDM (which might mean it restarted X). It was locked up when it came back. Perfect GDM screen, no garbage. Couldn't type a thing. Still could move the mouse, no clicks registered. Also, the Caps Lock and Num Lock keys did not toggle the appropriate lights.

One point I thought I'd make. This bug was created so that the Ubuntu installer might set an option during setup so users with Intel 845g chips would get a working install. Not necessarily about fixing the underlying problem with the driver. Although that is a worthy goal. The issue may be fixed in Intel's 2.6.0 release of the driver. I couldn't try it because the build requires a version of lbdrm that is not available in Jaunty. It is available in Debian Experimental, but I wasn't THAT motivated to compile 2.6.0.