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Hello, |
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After some recent updates, my keyboard shows some strange and |
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undesirable behavior. It is a MacBook (no previous keyboard |
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problems), with US mapping and UTF-8 mode. |
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Examples: During console login, the key-combination Shift+2 deletes |
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the whole line, and Shift+3 is a backspace, rather than the characters |
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'@' and '#' respectively. However, once logged-in, these keys behave |
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as expected. All other keys appear to work correctly. However, the |
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"Function" behavior is toggled opposite to previous settings where |
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they are normal F1-12 keys unless I hit the laptop's Fn key. Usually |
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this would be controlled by something like pommed (a small daemon for |
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Apple computers) or X, but those settings are not respected, and there |
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seems to be no way to switch the keyboard Function modes anymore. |
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Yesterday, I updated 18 packages and also the kernel. Is there some |
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simple tool in portage to report 1) The local build date of an |
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installed package 2) Display the emerge history? Such tools would |
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assist me in locating the problem, which I assume resulted from an |
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upgrade. |
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I know some of the updates included things like removing |
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device-mapper, updating lvm2 & udev, as well as perhaps kbd. I |
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expected these packages could be the problem, but I downgraded all of |
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them and restored the /etc directory from backup, and the strange |
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keyboard behavior remains. (Once I determined nothing in /etc causes |
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this behavior, I restored the recent /etc directory.) revdep-rebuild |
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doesn't show any broken dependencies that I might have missed through |
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the downgrades. |
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It is not the kernel or modules, since this behavior is now seen on |
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all my kernels. |
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Searching the internet and user-lists did not bring any solutions to |
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my attention. |
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Does anyone have some wisdom for me? |
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Regards, |
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daid |