On Wed, 2009-03-04 at 07:21 +0100, Dan Vratil wrote: > Hi, > this happens to me sometimes too. I found out, that I just have to > switch > to console, restart HAL daemon and it works again, so I'd say it could > be > problem in Xserver, but I'm really not sure about it. > > Dan Could be a problem with the evdev driver that freaks out on your keyboard. Restarting hal generates a load of new hotplug events for Xorg, so your keyboard gets removed from Xorg and hotplugged again, after which it is reinitialized. Is the keyboard you use PS2 or USB?