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

[Mark Knecht <markknecht@gmail.com>]

On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 6:47 PM, Albert Hopkins <marduk@letterboxes.org> wrote:
> On Wed, 2010-07-14 at 07:01 -0400, Albert Hopkins wrote:
>> In case anyone is listening, I did plug in an external keyboard (it's
>> a
>> laptop) and the extra keys on the external seem to work fine.  So this
>> evidence also leads me to believe that something happened
>> hardware-wise,
>> though I have no idea what it could be :|
>
> Well, I installed Windows 7 on the machine and the same keys that don't
> work with Gentoo now also didn't work with Windows.  So it looks to be a
> hardware issue.  But it's really weird.. physically I see nothing wrong
> with the keys.  ThinkAdvantage button still works during POST but not
> when an OS is running.  The Fn keys no longer work nor do the
> volume/mute keys.  But the play/pause buttons do.
>
> I guess I'll be taking it to get repaired.

Have you completely powered down the machine and replugged the
keyboard? Sometimes hardware gets stuck in an unknown state.

Just an idea.

- Mark