On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 6:47 PM, Albert Hopkins <mar...@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
