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