May not be the keyboard - but the plug on the computer. Is it PS2 or USB? If one, try a keyboard for the other and see if it works. ie - if it's PS2, give a USB keyboard a try. Be well, Mike in Zone 8, Texas -- http://www.taroandti.com/ Exotic Plant Info and More... http://www.organichomesteading.com/ Organic Homesteading http://www.naturalbeefarm.com/ Mike's Bee Farm On Fri, October 22, 2010 10:56 am, kitepi...@kitepilot.com wrote: > No mine, my father's... > > > He calls me to tell me that the keyboard on his freshly Ubuntu 10.10 > install quit working. He can't even login because he can't type the > password. > > I tried the on-screen keyboard, which gets blattanly ignored too, but I > am unfamiliar with the resource, so I could not draw anything conclusive > out of it. > > I suspected a hardware failure, so I brought the keyboard home and it > tested OK. > > > I went back to his home and was able to manipulate the BIOS and get to > the GRUB menu by holding down the left shift key on boot, got a shell, > renamed his home directory to bypass whatever configuration he might > inadvertently introduced, did dpkg-reconfigure -phigh xserver-xorg and > rebooted. > > No keyboard... :( > > > WHAT IN THE $#!&^* WORLD HAPPENED TO THE KEYBOARD!!!! > > > Other that a fresh re-install I don't know what to do... > > > I hope somebody here has a better idea. > ET
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