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Keyboard letters stops responding - ThinkPad T60 running Ubuntu 11.10

Asked by amirh

Hi,
I've installed Ubuntu 11.10 on a ThinkPad T60,
it happens (around every hour) that the keyboard letters just stop responding, switching languages (keyboard layout) a few times usually makes it come back, sometimes switching workspace (Alt+Ctrl Right\Left) also makes it come back.

I got the problem both with Unity and with Gnome Shell.
The computer was previously running Fedora with Gnome 3 without having this problem.

Will appreciate any help.

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#1

If you create a new user and log in there, is it the same?

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amirh (ahardon) said : 		#2

Yep, I just created a new user, logged in with it, and got the same problem.

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#3

I suggest you report a bug then

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amirh (ahardon) said : 		#4

Some more details I found out - what happens is that for some reason the alt key gets "stuck" - I've installed a utility that reports all key presses (screenkey) and while experiencing the problem hitting any key let's say x was reported as Alt-x.

I'm pretty sure that this is not an hardware problem as I'm not having this problem on the same machine when running Windows, and I didn't have this problem with the previous Linux distribution that was installed on this machine (Fedora).

Is your suggestion still to report a bug?

Many thanks for your help!

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#5

Yes as your new user will have vanilla settings, so your customisations in your users profile are not causing the issue.

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