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From: Mick <michaelkintzios@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Evdev keyboard no longer works
Date: Tue, 13 Jul 2010 22:11:58
Message-Id: 201007132311.37576.michaelkintzios@gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Evdev keyboard no longer works by Albert Hopkins
1 On Tuesday 13 July 2010 02:04:32 Albert Hopkins wrote:
2 > Suddenly my multimedia keys stopped working, I think today. I went into
3 > gnome-keyboard-properties, and it shows that my keyboard model is set to
4 > "Unknown". For a long time it has always been set to "Evdev managed
5 > keyboard" but that isn't even on the list anymore. The keyboard
6 > shortcuts preferences no longer recognize these keys when pressed.
7 >
8 > I can't see anything that I upgraded recenlty that could have changed
9 > this. I did update gnome-applets to 2.30.0 today, but downgrading back
10 > to 2.28 didn't bring the evdev model back.
11 >
12 > Anyone else experience this or have a clue as to what could have
13 > changed?
14
15 I think I just emerged a new evdev driver and a bunch of X related packages on
16 two boxen over here. Could it be related to those?
17
18 Have a look at genlop, or manually trawl through your /var/log/emerge.
19 --
20 Regards,
21 Mick

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