My stats:
Laptop: Acer Aspire 7741Z-5731
Distribution: Ubuntu 10.10 maverick
Desktop: GNOME 2.32.0
Kernel: Linux 2.6.35-24-generic
Platform: i686
Problem: Keyboard and main menu randomly freeze. Pressing SUPER key and tab will always bring the keyboard to full functionality.
I had a partition setup with Windows XP and Ubuntu 8.04 dual booting. I recently upgraded to Ubuntu 10.04 by installing fresh from CD but leaving the previous /home folder as is. Things seemed to be working fine, but started finding that my mouse and keyboard were freezing. After a quick search on the internet, I found the following suggestions as shown here:- Ubuntu Forums
Here the suggestion was to:-
Edit /etc/default/grub, go to the line
that begins like:
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT=
Change it to:
[Code]...
This seemed to have resolved the issue but after a couple of days I again find my mouse and keyboard freezing. I also find that my parallel port printer had also stopped working. I have saved the output of dmesg and my syslog. The first can be viewed here but the syslog had too many characters,
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[code]...
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Problem is:
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* This implies I am unable to press F2 to enter into BIOS
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So far I have tried the possible solution given at [URL] .... but it did not work.
Some Information
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$ lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID:Debian
Description:Debian GNU/Linux testing (jessie)
Release:testing
Codename:jessie
$ uname -r
3.13-1-amd64
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Code:
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