Became fine again on Saucy, now running Trusty without issue. The fact that this comes and goes with varying kernel families tells me this is tied into the kernel somewhere... but in any case, it's working now and I really don't care to fight with this any more (this is actually the second long-running bug I've had about this issue, and countless production, devel and test kernels attempted with varying degrees of success.
** Changed in: linux (Ubuntu) Status: Incomplete => Invalid -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/984265 Title: [Alienware M15x] Keyboard becomes all but unusable after Precise runs for so long To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/linux/+bug/984265/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs