[arch-general] special keys on latop don't work

[Bjoern Franke]

Am Samstag, den 20.10.2012, 14:36 +0200 schrieb Nelson Marambio:
> Hi, folks,
> 
> until a few days ago running GNOME I could use the special keys on my 
> laptop, e.g. for volume up/down. Now nothing happens when I press one of 
> these keys. Strange enough, it seems like only the volume up/down keys 
> have quit their work.
> 
> Because they did their job out of the box I don't know how to 
> re-acitivate them.
> 
> Does anyone have a hint for me ? The keys behave this way so in GNOME 
> but also in other DEs like LXDE.

I experienced the same, also the media keys (prev/next track etc.)
stopped working. The weird thing is, the keys are recognized in the
Gnome keyboard settings. With Gnome 3.6 from testing the keys work
again.

regards
bjo
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