What in the World happened to the %#$&! keyboard? (Ubuntu 10.10)

[kitepilot at kitepilot.com]

> 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...   :) 

 

mike at mjv.com writes: 

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> 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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> On Fri,
> October 22, 2010 11:04 am, mike at mjv.com wrote:
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>> 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.