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?