Re: [gentoo-user] Evdev keyboard no longer works [UPDATE]
On Wed, 2010-07-14 at 19:03 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: Have you completely powered down the machine and replugged the keyboard? Sometimes hardware gets stuck in an unknown state. Just an idea. It's a laptop, so plugging out the keyboard may be a challenge for me :P But yeah, the machine has been completely powered down several times. I might try pulling the battery though. -a
Re: [gentoo-user] Evdev keyboard no longer works [SOLVED]
On Thu, 2010-07-15 at 06:09 -0400, Albert Hopkins wrote: On Wed, 2010-07-14 at 19:03 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: Have you completely powered down the machine and replugged the keyboard? Sometimes hardware gets stuck in an unknown state. Just an idea. It's a laptop, so plugging out the keyboard may be a challenge for me :P But yeah, the machine has been completely powered down several times. I might try pulling the battery though. Well, I don't believe it but plugging out the battery for a few secs and plugging it back in fixed it (with the system shut down). Thanks for the tip Mark. :) -a
Re: [gentoo-user] Evdev keyboard no longer works [SOLVED]
On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 3:21 AM, Albert Hopkins mar...@letterboxes.org wrote: On Thu, 2010-07-15 at 06:09 -0400, Albert Hopkins wrote: On Wed, 2010-07-14 at 19:03 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: Have you completely powered down the machine and replugged the keyboard? Sometimes hardware gets stuck in an unknown state. Just an idea. It's a laptop, so plugging out the keyboard may be a challenge for me :P But yeah, the machine has been completely powered down several times. I might try pulling the battery though. Well, I don't believe it but plugging out the battery for a few secs and plugging it back in fixed it (with the system shut down). Thanks for the tip Mark. :) -a Hey - glad it worked Albert! Cheers, Mark
Re: [gentoo-user] Evdev keyboard no longer works [UPDATE]
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 :|
Re: [gentoo-user] Evdev keyboard no longer works
Am 13.07.2010 03:04, schrieb Albert Hopkins: 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? What version is your xorg-server package and your evdev input device? What use flags are set? signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Evdev keyboard no longer works [UPDATE]
On Wed, 2010-07-14 at 07:01 -0400, Albert Hopkins wrote: 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 :| Well, I installed Windows 7 on the machine and the same keys that don't work with Gentoo now also didn't work with Windows. So it looks to be a hardware issue. But it's really weird.. physically I see nothing wrong with the keys. ThinkAdvantage button still works during POST but not when an OS is running. The Fn keys no longer work nor do the volume/mute keys. But the play/pause buttons do. I guess I'll be taking it to get repaired.
Re: [gentoo-user] Evdev keyboard no longer works [UPDATE]
On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 6:47 PM, Albert Hopkins mar...@letterboxes.org wrote: On Wed, 2010-07-14 at 07:01 -0400, Albert Hopkins wrote: 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 :| Well, I installed Windows 7 on the machine and the same keys that don't work with Gentoo now also didn't work with Windows. So it looks to be a hardware issue. But it's really weird.. physically I see nothing wrong with the keys. ThinkAdvantage button still works during POST but not when an OS is running. The Fn keys no longer work nor do the volume/mute keys. But the play/pause buttons do. I guess I'll be taking it to get repaired. Have you completely powered down the machine and replugged the keyboard? Sometimes hardware gets stuck in an unknown state. Just an idea. - Mark
Re: [gentoo-user] Evdev keyboard no longer works
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. -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: [gentoo-user] Evdev keyboard no longer works
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
[gentoo-user] Evdev keyboard no longer works
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?
