Keyboard not detected

[Johnnie Ingram]

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Morning all. Hope life's treating everyone well.

I hit a weird problem on my main linux box over the weekend. I'm hoping
it'll turn out to be one of those problems with an embarrassingly
obvious answer, but so far it's got me baffled. Here's the situation:

My main box is runs 64-bit Ubuntu Karmic with a USB keyboard. On Friday,
everything was working fine when I shut down the machine at the end of
the day. I didn't boot the machine at all on Saturday, but on Sunday I
switched it on in the morning only to discover that my keyboard was not
responding to keypresses, at all. "Strange", I thought.

I unplugged the keyboard. I plugged it into three seperate laptops
(Linux Mint 8, Windows Vista, and some mad Puppy derivative that I'd
forgotten I'd even installed). Keyboard worked fine in all three.

I tried some other USB peripherals in the USB port on my main machine
normally used for my keyboard. All seemed to work fine, so the USB port
wasn't dead. Just in case, I tried the keyboard in 3 other USB slots.
Still didn't work.

"Right", I thought, "Dodgy keyboard. Best get another." So, I've just
been out and bought a cheap USB keyboard from Argos. Plugged it in,
still no functioning keyboard.

I grabbed an old ubuntu live install disk and booted that up in my main
machine. It worked, including the keyboard.

So. What's going wrong? I should point out that the keyboard fails at
GRUB, long before we even get to an OS. There's something deep going on.

Any suggestions? Reinstalling Ubuntu seems a pretty heavy-handed
solution, but it's the only one on the table at the moment.


Johnnie

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Johnnie Ingram
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Moviestorm Ltd
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