silent keys

[me-5yx05kfkO/aqeI1yJSURBw at public.gmane.org (Matthew Gillen)]

Tom Metro wrote:
> On a laptop I have a couple of keys that according to xev produce no key 
> events. (They appear to be normal keyboard keys, and not application 
> launcher or other oddities that could be handled separately from the 
> normal keyboard controller.)
> 
> Where is the best place to start tracking down a fix? xorg.conf? 
> (Currently I don't see anything relating to the keyboard there. I see 
> the kbd driver man page describes some of the keyboard related xorg.conf 
> options.)
> 
> I'm not sure if this is something that can be fixed at the xkbcomp or 
> keymaps level, or if the lack of scan codes suggests a problem further 
> up the chain, like the kernel.

Are you running gnome?  If so, go to the
System->Preferences->Hardware->Keyboard and check the "layouts" tab to see
what the current layout is.   If that looks ok, you can check out some of the
"layout options" on that tab.

HTH,
Matt