| 1 |
On Tue, 2010-07-13 at 23:03 -0400, Albert Hopkins wrote: |
| 2 |
> On Tue, 2010-07-13 at 23:11 +0100, Mick wrote: |
| 3 |
> > On Tuesday 13 July 2010 02:04:32 Albert Hopkins wrote: |
| 4 |
> > > Suddenly my multimedia keys stopped working, I think today. I went into |
| 5 |
> > > gnome-keyboard-properties, and it shows that my keyboard model is set to |
| 6 |
> > > "Unknown". For a long time it has always been set to "Evdev managed |
| 7 |
> > > keyboard" but that isn't even on the list anymore. The keyboard |
| 8 |
> > > shortcuts preferences no longer recognize these keys when pressed. |
| 9 |
> > > |
| 10 |
> > > I can't see anything that I upgraded recenlty that could have changed |
| 11 |
> > > this. I did update gnome-applets to 2.30.0 today, but downgrading back |
| 12 |
> > > to 2.28 didn't bring the evdev model back. |
| 13 |
> > > |
| 14 |
> > > Anyone else experience this or have a clue as to what could have |
| 15 |
> > > changed? |
| 16 |
> > |
| 17 |
> > I think I just emerged a new evdev driver and a bunch of X related packages on |
| 18 |
> > two boxen over here. Could it be related to those? |
| 19 |
> > |
| 20 |
> > Have a look at genlop, or manually trawl through your /var/log/emerge. |
| 21 |
> |
| 22 |
> Not really sure what's going on now... |
| 23 |
> |
| 24 |
> I just restored my entire machine from backup from over a week ago when |
| 25 |
> I *know* it was working, and... it still doesn't work. So perhaps |
| 26 |
> something is going on with the hardware |
| 27 |
|
| 28 |
In case anyone is listening, I did plug in an external keyboard (it's a |
| 29 |
laptop) and the extra keys on the external seem to work fine. So this |
| 30 |
evidence also leads me to believe that something happened hardware-wise, |
| 31 |
though I have no idea what it could be :| |
Archives