Re: Laptop Keyboard asdf, jkl;, enter disabled on boot up

["Miguel Angel Perez" <mangelp@xxxxxxxxx>]

You can also attach them in your next reply so people in this list can also take a look at it.

I've googled a bit and in the past your laptop model have been not working properly for a lot of people, especially ubuntu users. Maybe there is still some issues to polish related to keyboard mapping, acpi support or whatever, so finding and reporting would be great.

2008/12/14 Jim Duda <jim@xxxxxxxxxxxx>

Miguel Angel Perez wrote:
> Hi Jim.
>
> You can search into system logs and look for keyboard-related messages,
> that will provide some hints of errors that could be happening.
>
> You can try from console:
> dmesg | less
> cat /var/log/messages | less
>

Thanks for the reply Miguel, and good idea.  I searched through
the logs, however, no obvious errors or warnings found.

Jim

> Or from gui you can use the system logs viewer in Applications -> System
> Tools -> System log
>
> 2008/12/13 Jim Duda <jim@xxxxxxxxxxxx

> <mailto:jim@xxxxxxxxxxxx>>

>
>     I have a very weird problem.
>
>     Compaq Presario F500.  Only about a year old.
>
>     Recently (past few weeks), whenever I boot up, the following
>     keys are non responsive; asdfjkl; and the enter key.
>
>     If I wait a few minutes, like 3 or 4 minutes, they start
>     working.  If I restart a couple of times, they start
>     working too, however, I think this is the same 3-4
>     minute delay.
>
>     It would appear to be a hardware problem (bad keyboard),
>     however, once the keys start working, I never have another
>     problem, until the next reboot.
>
>     Could there be some software issue here?
>
>     I really like the laptop, works well, I really don't
>     want to take it apart unless I have to.
>
>     Jim
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