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Author: Tom Ostlund
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Subject: Re: What in the World happened to the %#$&! keyboard? (Ubuntu 10.10)
Might be silly, but you tried safe mode? And got the same result?


Tom Ostlund

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On Oct 22, 2010, at 11:13 AM, wrote:

> Did the keyboard work for a bit then suddenly stop working?

I installed Ubuntu 10.10 some week ago (he's been running Ubuntu since 6.04)
Everything worked as advertised.
Then I don't what happened, his recollection is far from clever (he is 96).
All I know is that now the GUI ignores the keyboard.
As usual, I was just handed out the mess.
ET
PS: And yes, the hardware is OK... :)

writes:
> Oops - I take that back - you were able to get into the command prompt and
> actually type stuff... Doh.
> Did the keyboard work for a bit then
> suddenly stop working? Be well,
> Mike in Zone 8, Texas
> --
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> October 22, 2010 11:04 am, wrote:
>> 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.

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