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

[Stephen]

you try a livecd yet? this will tell you if its the config on the
machine or some other flavor of gremlin.

On Fri, Oct 22, 2010 at 11:29 AM, kitepilot at kitepilot.com
<kitepilot at kitepilot.com> wrote:
>> Might be silly, but you tried safe mode? And got the same result?
>
> I guess, we're both silly...   :)
> I tried safe mode and got the same result...
> ET
>
>
> Tom Ostlund writes:
>>
>> Might be silly, but you tried safe mode? And got the same result?
>>
>> Tom Ostlund
>> tom at ostlundgroup.com
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>> On Oct 22, 2010, at 11:13 AM, kitepilot at kitepilot.com 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...   :)
>> mike at mjv.com 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, mike at mjv.com 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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