May not be the keyboard - but the plug on the computer. Is it PS2 or USB?
If one, try a keyboard for the other and see if it works. ie - if it's
PS2, give a USB keyboard a try.

Be well,
Mike in Zone 8,
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On Fri,
October 22, 2010 10:56 am, kitepilot@kitepilot.com wrote:
> No
mine, my father's...
> 
> 
> He calls me to tell
me that the keyboard on his freshly Ubuntu 10.10
> install quit
working.  He can't even login because he can't type the
>
password.
> 
> I tried the on-screen keyboard, which gets
blattanly ignored too, but I
> am unfamiliar with the resource, so
I could not draw anything conclusive
> out of it.
> 
> I suspected a hardware failure, so I brought the keyboard home and
it
> tested OK.
> 
> 
> I went back to his
home and was able to manipulate the BIOS and get to
> the GRUB
menu by holding down the left shift key on boot, got a shell,
>
renamed his home directory to bypass whatever configuration he might
> inadvertently introduced, did dpkg-reconfigure -phigh xserver-xorg
and
> rebooted.
> 
> No keyboard...   :(
>

> 
> WHAT IN THE $#!&^* WORLD HAPPENED TO THE
KEYBOARD!!!!
> 
> 
> Other that a fresh re-install
I don't know what to do...
> 
> 
> I hope somebody
here has a better idea.
> ET