It seems that these Microsoft keyboards are being picked up as both keyboards & pointer devices - do they have anything that resembles a pointing device (a scroll-wheel, a joystick-like thing, etc)?
It looks like the kernel is confusing X here. To confirm this, could someone experiencing this problem please post their udev log, found in /var/log/udev? ** Changed in: xserver-xorg-input-evdev (Ubuntu) Status: Confirmed => Incomplete -- Keyboard special keys interfere with mouse https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/636311 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu-X, which is subscribed to xserver-xorg-input-evdev in ubuntu. _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-x-swat Post to : ubuntu-x-swat@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-x-swat More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp