PgUp/PgDn keys are gone??

[oregonshoegazer]

i feel like this is an awfully silly question, but i've lost the functionality in my PgUp/PgDn keys on my keyboard. all other keys seem to be working fine. any ideas about what might have caused this and how to test/fix it?

thanks.

orsg

[br0mGreV]

Is the PgUp && PgDown are out both in console and in X, or is this only true at X ?

try using xev to see if the key command arrive at the Xserver.

[oregonshoegazer]

weird... no signal being received by the X server. neither the PgUp nor PgDn keys show up when using xev. all other keys appear to be functional. i can't imagine why these two keys would have been singled out...

any more ideas? is there an application that might have removed the functionality of these two keys by accident?

[br0mGreV]

Is this only true in the X server, or can u use it, for instance, with nano to get up/down the file ??

And what X server do u use (X.org or XFree ? )

If it's only on the Xserver, you may think of editing the keyboard layout
you've selected in your XF86config (

[oregonshoegazer]

thanks for the help.

it looks like there are some problems. even when i back out to the command line and use nano, as you advised, there is still no functionality with the PgUp/PgDn keys. is this a guaranteed hardware failure? is there a way to "re-route" that PgUp/PgDn functionality to other less-frequently-used keys (e.g. PrntScreen or WindowsKey)?

thanks again.

[br0mGreV]

I don't know from now,

Maybe you should try to boot to the gentoo liveCD and check if the keys are not aviable there too.

among many other question you should answer :
What is your hardware (laptop, desktop )
Do you remember a time when you used this keys succesfully since you've installed gentoo
If so, from when do you lost them

Are you sure of the two files :

• rc.conf
  especialy the entries : KEYMAP,SET_WINDOWKEYS,EXTENDED_KEYMAPS and CONSOLETRANSLATION
  
  
• inputrc
  

[oregonshoegazer]

thanks again for the suggestions. i'll try the liveCD when i can find my install disc.

the rc.conf and inputrc files look to be correct.

i'm using a dell inspiron 8100 laptop, and the pgup/pgdn keys have worked as far as i know up to about two weeks ago. weird. can't put my finger on anything that might have caused the keys to fail.

i like the liveCD suggestion though. i'll try that and report the results later. thanks again.

[oregonshoegazer]

well, i don't know what changed, but suddenly my pgup/pgdn keys are working again?!?!

i haven't changed anything substantial in the hardware setup recently. if anything, i've been using this machine much less in the past few days. weird. thanks for the help!