From: Mick <michaelkintzios@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] F keys gone mad
Date: Fri, 14 Jul 2006 21:04:27 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200607142104.27807.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0607141911510.17743@jmaa.math.ist.utl.pt>
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On Friday 14 July 2006 19:19, Jorge Almeida wrote:
> I was trying vmware and something went wrong, causing the computer to
> reboot.
> Now I can't use my F keys. The system boots and goes X; after that, I
> can't switch to a vt: CTRl-ALT-F? gives weird results (CTRl-ALT-F1-> P,
> CTRl-ALT-F2 -> Q,...).
> My keyboard is one of those silly Logitech thingies with
> Windows-oriented F-keys, with a "lock" key to enable normal F-key
> behaviour. I checked with xev that the keys were enabled.
Could it be that your xorg.conf was corrupted? What other files do your F
keys need to access to operate? I have found that with sudden crashes (I had
a box with faulty memory that kept crashing on me) random files would get
corrupted. The contents would normally be sound but access rights would get
muddled up.
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Regards,
Mick
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2006-07-14 18:19 [gentoo-user] F keys gone mad Jorge Almeida
2006-07-14 20:04 ` Mick [this message]
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