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
