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The first letter in the alphabet a is not working on my keyboard. I'm also noticing that the num lock light flashes with every keystroke of any letter as I type. I re-installed an older version of Ubuntu and it works again so it is the 11.10 release of Ubuntu.

How can I fix this?

model is toshiba satellite l655d-s5076rd

Carl Cordell
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  • Run xev from a gnome-terminal and then press the a key and add the output to your question. – htorque Oct 23 '11 at 19:35
  • PropertyNotify event, serial 36, synthetic NO, window 0x4800001, atom 0x1a8 (_NET_WM_ICON_GEOMETRY), time 21240586, state PropertyNewValue – Carl Cordell Oct 23 '11 at 20:37
  • That's all? Can you try again with xev > xev.log, then press a, then close the little window, open xev.log, copy its content to http://paste.ubuntu.com and add the link here? – htorque Oct 23 '11 at 20:45
  • It hd wy more but it ws 4000 chrters too long for comment. I will do it gin but, is there something specific you re looking for since this is so limited. I hve mx of 500 chrcters – Carl Cordell Oct 23 '11 at 21:01
  • Just use http://paste.ubuntu.com/ to paste it. I'm looking for something like this. – htorque Oct 23 '11 at 21:11
  • OK, I put the text on my blog. http://carlcordellphotoblog.blogspot.com/ – Carl Cordell Oct 23 '11 at 21:13
  • Done http://paste.ubuntu.com/717368/ – Carl Cordell Oct 23 '11 at 21:18
  • Ok, so the key press doesn't even show up. Does the 'a' work if you press Ctrl+Alt+F1 (you can go back to the desktop with Ctrl+Alt+F7)? Anyways, I really think this should better be a bug report as I don't see how we can help you with such a weird problem. To report it, run ubuntu-bug linux and follow the instructions. Don't forget to add all the information you have (like that it works with previous versions of Ubuntu). More here. – htorque Oct 23 '11 at 21:20
  • I reported the bug with Ubuntu. The key will not respond t ll even with ctrl, etc. It works fine with the older version so I'm going to reinstll the old version nd sty wy from this one. It's clerly not comptible with my lptop. Thnks for giving it shot. I'm seeing others posting problems s well so 11.10 hs bugs I'm not up for deling with. – Carl Cordell Oct 23 '11 at 21:25
  • This question appears to be abandoned, if you are experiencing a similar issue please ask a new question with details pertaining to your problem. If you feel this question is not abandoned, please flag the question explaining that. :) – jrg Feb 03 '12 at 01:01
  • @jrg I don't think the OP can really flag. He has 15 rep. Or am I mistaken? I'm just asking about a general case. – nanofarad Nov 05 '12 at 22:29

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