On Fri, Oct 12, 2012 at 4:12 PM, fredbezies <fredbezies@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > It is like the key is dead. But it is not a keyboard problem, same > thing happens with another keyboard. > > Use the showkey to determine, if the key is being determined by the kernel when pressed. If it is being determined, then probably it is not mapped correctly. See the following links to determine how to map such keys. https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Extra_Keyboard_Keys_in_Xorg https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Extra_Keyboard_Keys#Using_xev -- Jayesh