F15: two keys from keyboard not recognized on Acer TM6465 laptop

Marcos Ortiz mlortiz at uci.cu
Mon Jul 4 08:10:42 UTC 2011



On 07/04/2011 03:01 AM, Patrick Lists wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On my Acer TravelMate 6465WLMi laptop I have F15 x86_64 installed and
> updated. On the laptop there are two keys that don't do anything: one
> with the $ sign and another with the Euro sign (note: these are not the
> "4" key which has the "$" above the "4" or the "5"" key which has the
> Euro sign at the right of the "5" key). xev does not show anything when
> either key is pressed. At the time of F11 or F12 I could fix this by
> getting the keycode from xev and using setkeycode. But since xev does
> not register a keypress when either key is pressed this is not possible.
> Does anyone have an idea how I can make these keys work?
Well, if you think that's a bug, report it and fix it like you did in 
the Fedora 12 release
Regards
>
> Thanks!
> Patrick

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