On 7/27/05, Øyvind Stegard <oyvinst@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi, > > I've been having a problem lately where my left Windows key suddenly > dies on me and stops generating keyboard events. This is extremely > annoying as I use it as a modifier for many shortcuts to apps, desktop > switching and window management. It seems to happen randomly, and I have > to totally power off/on my laptop to get it working again. Sometimes, > though, it randomly starts working again. I see no patterns, nor any > offending X apps. Tried killing wm [Metacity], does not help. The > problem is perhaps all the way into the kernel, since the 'showkey' > command shows no generated events when I press it (same when X isn't > running). Nothing about unknown keys in dmesg, either. xev shows > nothing. This has never happened with Linux on this laptop before, and > I've been using Fedora on it since FC2. The key in itself is certainly > not broken, physically. > > Some (hopefully) relevant info: > * I'm using Norwegian keyboard layout (no) on a Compaq Presario laptop. > * Using Gnome > * kernel-2.6.12-1.1398_FC4 > * xorg-x11-6.8.2-37 > * gcc-4.0.1-3.fc4 > > The latest "big" system update was gcc (and thus libgcc, libstdc++, > ...), and I cannot recall it happening before this. I'd greatly > appreciate if anyone knew something about this or could point me into > bugzilla (have searched, but too many "Zarro Boogs found" gets old > really quickly >8[ ). > > Øyvind. > -- > < Øyvind Stegard < oyvinst at ifi uio no > > < http://www.oyvind.nu/ > < `Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math.' > Do you mean that key at the bottom of the keyboard with the outline of the penguin? Dotan http://lyricslist.com/lyrics/artist_albums/408/presidents_of_the_united_states_of_america.php The Presidents of the United States of America Song Lyrics
