We might be dealing with two or more unrelated bugs. Michael, one way to rule out whether it is the xserver or not would be to boot linux in console mode, without going into X at all, and see if the behavior still occurs.
This sort of sounds similar to this upstream bug: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3037. However the symptoms are a bit different. Patrick, or others having this issue, can you please attach your /etc/X11/xorg.conf and /var/log/Xorg.0.log files? -- NumLock gets enabled unexpectedly on my laptop https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/92482 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs