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

Mathew Davies thepixeldeveloper at googlemail.com
Sat Oct 20 08:55:52 EDT 2012


Take a look at this post [1] which tells you to downgrade certain
packages. Then add the packages to the IgnorePkg line in /etc/pacman.conf
until the problem is solved.

[1]: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=1175097#p1175097

Kind Regards,
-Mathew Davies.

On 20 October 2012 13:36, Nelson Marambio <nelsonmarambio at gmx.de> wrote:

> 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.
>
> Kind regards,
> Nelson.
>


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