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.
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Regards,
Mick