Windows key suddenly dies (FC4)

From: Qyvind_Stegard?= (oyvinst_at_ifi.uio.no)
Date: 07/27/05

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    Hi,

    I've been having a problem lately where my left Windows key suddenly
    dies on me and stops generating keyboard events. This is extremely
    annoying as I use it as a modifier for many shortcuts to apps, desktop
    switching and window management. It seems to happen randomly, and I have
    to totally power off/on my laptop to get it working again. Sometimes,
    though, it randomly starts working again. I see no patterns, nor any
    offending X apps. Tried killing wm [Metacity], does not help. The
    problem is perhaps all the way into the kernel, since the 'showkey'
    command shows no generated events when I press it (same when X isn't
    running). Nothing about unknown keys in dmesg, either. xev shows
    nothing. This has never happened with Linux on this laptop before, and
    I've been using Fedora on it since FC2. The key in itself is certainly
    not broken, physically.

    Some (hopefully) relevant info:
    * I'm using Norwegian keyboard layout (no) on a Compaq Presario laptop.
    * Using Gnome
    * kernel-2.6.12-1.1398_FC4
    * xorg-x11-6.8.2-37
    * gcc-4.0.1-3.fc4

    The latest "big" system update was gcc (and thus libgcc, libstdc++,
    ...), and I cannot recall it happening before this. I'd greatly
    appreciate if anyone knew something about this or could point me into
    bugzilla (have searched, but too many "Zarro Boogs found" gets old
    really quickly >8[ ).

    Øyvind. 

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