[ILUG] laptop keyboard problems

[Robert Sweetnam]

Michael Thompson wrote:
> On 26/06/07, Robert Sweetnam <linux at sweetnam.eu> wrote:
>> Michael Thompson wrote:
>> > On 25/06/07, Michael Thompson <michaelnt at gmail.com> wrote:
>> >> On 25/06/07, Andrew Court <syklops at gmail.com> wrote:
>> >> >
>> >> >
>> >> > Did you say it works ok with FreeDos?
>> >>
>> >> It's an intermittent problem so not sure
>> >
>> > rebooting the laptop fixes the keyboard so i think it is a software
>> > problem. boTh the keyboard and the touchpad stop working at the same
>> > time.
>>
>>
>> Still begs the question.
>>
>> What make and model laptop do you have?
> 
> Dell latitude D600

This seems to be similar:

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=295814
>From the Article:
"The Symptoms:
When trying to Suspend/Hibernate, the screen faded out but did not
actually shut down. When moving the mouse, the X-LOCK wanted a password.
The keyboard DID NOT work anymore (couldnt type..) so a reboot was
necessary after that.. However, manually doing "echo 3 >
/proc/acpi/sleep" or "echo mem > /sys/..something" DID work flawlessy."


HTH
Robert