Given the above, and that it starts behaving once gnome-power-manager is turned off, it's starting to sound like a bug in gnome-power-manager. I'm adding a task for that package.
Given that your hotkeys work but the rest of the keyboard doesn't, and that lshal output hasn't changed, it sort of sounds like something is stealing your keyboard device. Presumably X is able to reclaim it from doing a vtswitch. Not sure what would cause that. Please attach your lshal output. ** Also affects: gnome-power-manager (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New -- Losing keyboard and mouse control when changing screen brightness with fn + arrow under intrepid https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/285323 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs