Yes it seems it is the same problem. I also have experienced the situation with hitting one key and then getting a million dashes. Can't stop them other than rebooting. Any solution that I can try in order to be able to install from live cd? So far I have only tested the i386 version.
I guess we can label this bug as a duplicate of 66929 -- Edgy LiveCD AMD64 no keyboard https://launchpad.net/bugs/67208 -- kubuntu-bugs mailing list kubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/kubuntu-bugs