Re: [gentoo-user] Evdev keyboard no longer works [SOLVED]

2010-07-15 Thread Albert Hopkins
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]

2010-07-15 Thread Mark Knecht
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