Bug#169427: Perhaps not the kernel

[Frank Murphy <fjm_maillists@yahoo.com>]

Oops. Of course I hadn't followed the thread where Tomas Pospisek (the 
original submitter) responded, having tried gpm:

> 1) Starting into text mode, even with gpm running doesn't show any such
>    problem. How come? The mechanism regarding the HW is the same as under
>    X or isn't it?
> 2) If what P.R. Patil mantions happens and you log into the machine
>    through ssh you can do a chvt to a console and the keyboard is there.
>    How come? Does switching from X to console do a ioctl?
>
> *t

So the situation hasn't been explained well enough yet.

Frank