I have a very similar problem with 8.10 on my Dell Inspiront 640m (equivalent to the E1504)
I have the same problems as Karl M except I do not have anything using large amounts of CPU when the keyboard is non responsive. One other strange behavior I noticed is that when the gnome-power- manager is on there does not appear to be a one to one correlation between pressing fn-up/down and brightness level changes. However the brightness changes just fine(aka one step per press) with the gnome- power-manager off). -- 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