As Mark said, you probably have it set so you need the function key to be
pressed to issue commands involving the f keys. You can change this in keyboard
preferences so that the f keys will perform their special tasks (brightness
volume, all that) either only when the function key is pressed, or
F1 and F2 alone control brightness. try pressing F2 without the VO keys and see
if that fixes it. If not, try Function F2.
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I was trying to check what I had opened by hitting VO F1, twice, and instead of
the application chooser coming up, it kept saying "display brightness" and a
decreasing percentage. It hit zero, and then it suddenly brought up the menus.
When I tried to replicate this to bring the brightness back,
