I have been experiencing the exact same problem on a Dell Vostro 1510 laptop on both jaunty and karmic (worked fine on intrepid).
After I boot, the keyboard and touchpad sometimes work at the login manager and sometimes not. Keyboard works just fine in GRUB so it must be some problem later on. Interestingly the failure happens about half of time when I am running on AC power and almost always when I am running on battery. I have no clue why this makes a difference. If the mouse or keyboard don't work, the only thing I can do is press the power button to shutdown the laptop and power one again for a new try. CTRL+ALT+F1...F8 do not work. An external USB mouse works fine. I have not found a way to fix, even after many clean reinstalls of both jaunty and karmic. If you need some specific config files to diagnose the issue better, just tell me and I will post it. -- [Karmic] keyboard locked/freezed unable to type anything https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/429249 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to gnome-power-manager in ubuntu. -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
