I've run into a problem I've never experienced. I'll try to describe the setup first, then the phenomena:
Gateway laptop core due <whatever???> gentoo 2008.0 kernel-2.6.26-r1 running in a vmware app on vista home. Let me say here that This app has run well for sometime but left alone for quite awhile. I'm not sure where the problem first occurred and it appears that at least on occasion a reboot cures it... but not always. This particular time around I can't shake it with a reboot. The phenomena: Certain keys are dead in console mode... not sure about X since I don't have it working currently. But an ssh console also sees this problem. Key `e' and `/' when pressed just do nothing whatever. I think there way be a bell since I see a flash when ssh'd in from and Xterm in a X session on another machine. I may not have sound enabled... not sure right now. Those two appear to be the only keys effected. Upper case E works fine and the uppercase char (?) above `/' works fine. If I press Ctrl-v and then the `e' if works... ditto for `/'. A search on gmane with `dead' `key' as strings didn't dredge up what I need. Mostly X related stuff in that search. Anyone recognize this behavior or have a clue what might cause it? Restart of udev and consolefont does not help.
