Bug#567756: xserver-xorg-input-all: keyboard not working after squeeze upgrade

[Rick Thomas <rbthomas@pobox.com>]

Now here's an observation that may help...

The Macintosh USB keyboard has an "eject" key in the upper right hand 
corner.  It has a symbol on it that looks like a triangle with an 
underline (commonly used for "eject" on audio CD players and video DVD 
players).

Even though the rest of the keyboard is non-responsive when X is active, 
that key (the eject) works reliably!!!

Is it being recognized at a lower level than the others?


Here's another observation...

Very occasionally, once in a long while -- when I hit a keyboard key 
(other than eject), it will echo on the screen.  But only for one 
key-hit -- then it immediately goes back to being unresponsive.

Here's yet one more...

This box is running Squeeze.  I have a box running Sid right next to it 
(infact the two machines share a keyboard and monitor via a KVM switch) 
and the Sid box does not have this problem.  The versions of the xserver 
software on the two machines are identical, incase that helps...

Rick