You can also attach them in your next reply so people in this list can also take a look at it. I've googled a bit and in the past your laptop model have been not working properly for a lot of people, especially ubuntu users. Maybe there is still some issues to polish related to keyboard mapping, acpi support or whatever, so finding and reporting would be great. <div class="gmail_quote">2008/12/14 Jim Duda <<a href="mailto:jim@duda.tzo.com">jim@duda.tzo.com</a>> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> <div class="Ih2E3d">Miguel Angel Perez wrote: > Hi Jim. > > You can search into system logs and look for keyboard-related messages, > that will provide some hints of errors that could be happening. > > You can try from console: > dmesg | less > cat /var/log/messages | less > </div>Thanks for the reply Miguel, and good idea. I searched through the logs, however, no obvious errors or warnings found. Jim <div class="Ih2E3d"> > Or from gui you can use the system logs viewer in Applications -> System > Tools -> System log > > 2008/12/13 Jim Duda <<a href="mailto:jim@duda.tzo.com">jim@duda.tzo.com</a> </div>> <mailto:<a href="mailto:jim@duda.tzo.com">jim@duda.tzo.com</a>>> <div class="Ih2E3d">> > I have a very weird problem. > > Compaq Presario F500. Only about a year old. > > Recently (past few weeks), whenever I boot up, the following > keys are non responsive; asdfjkl; and the enter key. > > If I wait a few minutes, like 3 or 4 minutes, they start > working. If I restart a couple of times, they start > working too, however, I think this is the same 3-4 > minute delay. > > It would appear to be a hardware problem (bad keyboard), > however, once the keys start working, I never have another > problem, until the next reboot. > > Could there be some software issue here? > > I really like the laptop, works well, I really don't > want to take it apart unless I have to. > > Jim > > _______________________________________________ > Fedora-laptop-list mailing list > <a href="mailto:Fedora-laptop-list@redhat.com">Fedora-laptop-list@redhat.com</a> </div>> <mailto:<a href="mailto:Fedora-laptop-list@redhat.com">Fedora-laptop-list@redhat.com</a>> <div class="Ih2E3d">> <a href="http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-laptop-list" target="_blank">http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-laptop-list</a> > > > > > -- > -- > Miguel Ángel Pérez > > </div>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ <div><div></div><div class="Wj3C7c">> > _______________________________________________ > Fedora-laptop-list mailing list > <a href="mailto:Fedora-laptop-list@redhat.com">Fedora-laptop-list@redhat.com</a> > <a href="http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-laptop-list" target="_blank">http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-laptop-list</a> _______________________________________________ Fedora-laptop-list mailing list <a href="mailto:Fedora-laptop-list@redhat.com">Fedora-laptop-list@redhat.com</a> <a href="http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-laptop-list" target="_blank">http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-laptop-list</a> </div></div></blockquote></div> -- Regards, Miguel Ángel Pérez