Hello, After some recent updates, my keyboard shows some strange and undesirable behavior. It is a MacBook (no previous keyboard problems), with US mapping and UTF-8 mode.
Examples: During console login, the key-combination Shift+2 deletes the whole line, and Shift+3 is a backspace, rather than the characters '@' and '#' respectively. However, once logged-in, these keys behave as expected. All other keys appear to work correctly. However, the "Function" behavior is toggled opposite to previous settings where they are normal F1-12 keys unless I hit the laptop's Fn key. Usually this would be controlled by something like pommed (a small daemon for Apple computers) or X, but those settings are not respected, and there seems to be no way to switch the keyboard Function modes anymore. Yesterday, I updated 18 packages and also the kernel. Is there some simple tool in portage to report 1) The local build date of an installed package 2) Display the emerge history? Such tools would assist me in locating the problem, which I assume resulted from an upgrade. I know some of the updates included things like removing device-mapper, updating lvm2 & udev, as well as perhaps kbd. I expected these packages could be the problem, but I downgraded all of them and restored the /etc directory from backup, and the strange keyboard behavior remains. (Once I determined nothing in /etc causes this behavior, I restored the recent /etc directory.) revdep-rebuild doesn't show any broken dependencies that I might have missed through the downgrades. It is not the kernel or modules, since this behavior is now seen on all my kernels. Searching the internet and user-lists did not bring any solutions to my attention. Does anyone have some wisdom for me? Regards, daid
