Comment 15 for bug 272293

Having the same problem in Hardy. I haven't installed any specialty software or done anything that messes directly with the keyboard. About every two or three hours, the key repeat dies. It seems associated with inactivity, and doesn't matter what application I'm running in or out of a terminal.
I'm on a Dell Dimension 3000
$ lspci
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 82865G Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 02)
xorg.conf attached.
$ uname -a
Linux HostName 2.6.24-21-generic #1 SMP Tue Oct 21 23:43:45 UTC 2008 i686 GNU/Linux

I didn't have this problem before the last kernel update, so I'm wondering if this has something to do with that. When I get some time I'll reboot in the previous kernel, 2.6.24.20-generic and see if the problem is present there as well.