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Dusty

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From: Medicine Hat, Alberta, Canada

Registered: 2004-01-18

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F4 key on USB keyboard is acting funny

Hey all,

I think this is an xorg issue... (aka: it seems like Arch is really going downhill lately).

I'm not sure when this started but I don't THINK it was happening before I updated this morning and pulled in the core rebuild.

When I press the F4 key on my USB keyboard (Kinesis Advantage PRO), it sends the same keycode as fn+down arrow on my thinkpad keyboard (play/pause) instead of the expected keyboard value. The other function keys seem to be working fine and the F4 key on the laptop keyboard behaves properly.

Its a programmable keyboard, so I thought maybe I'd accidentally remapped the key, but that doesn't seem to be the case, I've got it mapped back to itself.

My xorg.conf keyboard section; I can't remember what app I used to configure this:

Section "InputDevice"
    Identifier  "Keyboard0"
    Driver      "keyboard"
  Option      "CoreKeyboard"
    Option "XkbRules" "xorg"
    Option "XkbModel" "pc105"
    Option "XkbLayout" ""
    Option "XkbVariant" ""
EndSection

xev output:

KeymapNotify event, serial 32, synthetic NO, window 0x0,
    keys:  1   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   
           0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0

Gnome keybindings recognizes the keypress as 0xa2.

I die a little inside every time I press Alt-F4 and nothing happens.

Dusty

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