[ubuntu-uk] Keyboard not responding at login

[Tony Pursell]

On 6 October 2011 17:54, Bod Soutar <bodsda at googlemail.com> wrote:

>
> On 5 October 2011 22:53, Tony Pursell <ajp at princeswalk.fsnet.co.uk> wrote:
> > Can anyone figure out what is wrong here.  It's my Asus EEEPC 1015PEM
> > netbook running Natty.  It was OK on Monday, but today, when I get to the
> > login screen only the Esc key  and the track pad/mouse buttons seem to
> > work.  So I can select my login with the mouse from the list of logins
> but
> > not key in my password and hit Enter.
> >
> > There seems nothing physically wrong with the keyboard.  It works in a
> root
> > shell in recovery mode (from the GRUB menu) and also when I boot into
> > Windows 7.
> >
> > Any ideas would be much appreciated.
> >
> > Tony
> >
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> > ubuntu-uk at lists.ubuntu.com
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> > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
> >
> >
>
> Any recent changes made to the system? Hardware, Firmware, Software,
> Updates etc...
> I have only ever seen this issue with usb keyboards... Incidentally,
> if you attach a usb keyboard, does it work?
>
> Bodsda
>
>
> No changes that I know of.

Following your suggestion, I tried with a usb keyboard attached and also
with the onscreen keyboard enabled.  Just the same.  Only the Esc key works.

Tony
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