(Sorry for the delay, was out of town.) Last night, the problem appeared to have disappeared. At first, I thought it was because the wireless card (which requires a binary driver) had been removed.
That was when I found out the problem is most pronounced in, for example, the gtksu and gdm dialogs. Even without the card in, the problem pops up. When I'm typing in gnome-terminal, everything seems fine. Other times (e.g. firefox url bar), the system seems to have trouble seeing what I'm typing. I've attached the two files as requested with a 20s interval. During the interval I tried to type a password for Synaptic. ** Attachment added: "first irq file" http://librarian.launchpad.net/6898487/irq-card.1 -- keyboard only works sporadically on inspiron 1100 https://launchpad.net/bugs/93777 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
