[ale] My Fn Keys stopped working

Lightner, Jeff JLightner at water.com
Mon Sep 26 08:50:44 EDT 2011


Reminds of a system years ago that had a keyboard lock button right next to the power button.   They both looked the same.   More than once I'd come in and find the night shift had power cycled the system because "the keyboard quit working".  The power cycle of course didn't work so they then tried detaching and reconnecting the keyboard with no luck and would leave me a note.  Usually that was just an annoyance but one morning I found one of them had pushed the keyboard connection in so forcefully but upside down that they'd bent all of the pins on it.

Which also reminds me of the VP I worked with who asked me to look at his personal Gateway (yes I know) PC.   I found he had actually forced the power connector into his hard drive upside down which had to have taken some work given the D shape made for such connectors to prevent exactly that.





-----Original Message-----
From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On Behalf Of Jim Lynch
Sent: Monday, September 26, 2011 7:13 AM
To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts
Subject: Re: [ale] My Fn Keys stopped working

On 09/25/2011 10:07 PM, Joshua Roberts wrote:
> Hi all.
>
> My Fn keys are not working correctly anymore.
>
> I am running mint 11 64-bit.
>
> I came home one day and my Cat had been laying on my keyboard and I
> had dozens if not hundreds of print screen dialogues on my screen.
> Since then they Fn keys have not worked.
>
> Google has little info that is easy to find and the IRC rooms are
> silent when I ask.
>
> Does anyone have any thoughts?
>
> Joshua
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I have a F Lock key on my keyboard.  It converts the F1-F12 keys into
something strange. I have no idea what the purpose is, but when I
accidentally press it, my function keys stop working.  Perhaps you have
one too?

Jim.
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