[SagaciousKJB]

for some reason the shift keys on my keyboard have stopped responding.

i'm running kubunut 8.04 with kde 3.5 with linux 2.6.24-16-generic

i haven't noticed any sort of sticky keys or anything of that nature being on, but what's odd is that under vmware workstation 6.02 i can use the keys just fine.

in any case, this is extremely annoying, and i'm in the middle of compiling a kernel and a encoding a movie. is there a way i can figure out what the problem is and possible fix it without having to try a simple restart/ ah, crap, no question marks, no shift keys...

[Freston]

I'm not sure, but these are some things that come to mind:

Did you change anything in
Kmenu/control_center/Region_and_accessibility/short_keys/modification_keys?? What is in there?

What happens when you open up Konsole and type 'xev'
Try pressing some keys, your Konsole should fill with output. Now press [shift], do you get a response?

What is the output of

cat ~/.Xmodmap

[SagaciousKJB]

Well, after a bit of not being able to do anything that involved the shift key, I just gave up and restarted--that fixed the problem. Though, once I logged back in, one of my sound cards stopped working. Something about the modules was not agreeable, according to dmesg.

[   41.109921] snd_ac97_codec: disagrees about version of symbol snd_pcm_hw_rule_add
[   41.109926] snd_ac97_codec: Unknown symbol snd_pcm_hw_rule_add
[   41.148600] snd_ac97_codec: disagrees about version of symbol snd_pcm_hw_rule_add
[   41.148604] snd_ac97_codec: Unknown symbol snd_pcm_hw_rule_add
[   41.153463] snd_emu10k1: Unknown symbol snd_ac97_write_cache
[   41.153554] snd_emu10k1: Unknown symbol snd_ac97_resume
[   41.153595] snd_emu10k1: disagrees about version of symbol snd_pcm_new
[   41.153597] snd_emu10k1: Unknown symbol snd_pcm_new
[   41.153731] snd_emu10k1: disagrees about version of symbol snd_pcm_lib_preallocate_pages_for_all
[   41.153734] snd_emu10k1: Unknown symbol snd_pcm_lib_preallocate_pages_for_all
[   41.153823] snd_emu10k1: disagrees about version of symbol snd_pcm_hw_constraint_minmax
[   41.153825] snd_emu10k1: Unknown symbol snd_pcm_hw_constraint_minmax
[   41.153930] snd_emu10k1: Unknown symbol snd_ac97_mixer
[   41.154024] snd_emu10k1: Unknown symbol snd_ac97_bus
[   41.154321] snd_emu10k1: Unknown symbol snd_ac97_suspend
[   41.154385] snd_emu10k1: disagrees about version of symbol snd_pcm_lib_malloc_pages
[   41.154387] snd_emu10k1: Unknown symbol snd_pcm_lib_malloc_pages
[   41.154513] snd_emu10k1: disagrees about version of symbol snd_pcm_lib_ioctl
[   41.154515] snd_emu10k1: Unknown symbol snd_pcm_lib_ioctl
[   41.154549] snd_emu10k1: disagrees about version of symbol snd_pcm_lib_free_pages
[   41.154551] snd_emu10k1: Unknown symbol snd_pcm_lib_free_pages
[   41.154730] snd_emu10k1: disagrees about version of symbol snd_pcm_set_ops
[   41.154732] snd_emu10k1: Unknown symbol snd_pcm_set_ops
[   41.154804] snd_emu10k1: disagrees about version of symbol snd_pcm_hw_constraint_list
[   41.154806] snd_emu10k1: Unknown symbol snd_pcm_hw_constraint_list
[   41.154889] snd_emu10k1: disagrees about version of symbol snd_pcm_sgbuf_ops_page
[   41.154891] snd_emu10k1: Unknown symbol snd_pcm_sgbuf_ops_page
[   41.154934] snd_emu10k1: disagrees about version of symbol snd_pcm_suspend_all
[   41.154936] snd_emu10k1: Unknown symbol snd_pcm_suspend_all
[   41.155035] snd_emu10k1: disagrees about version of symbol snd_pcm_hw_constraint_integer
[   41.155037] snd_emu10k1: Unknown symbol snd_pcm_hw_constraint_integer
[   41.155139] snd_emu10k1: disagrees about version of symbol snd_pcm_lib_preallocate_pages
[   41.155141] snd_emu10k1: Unknown symbol snd_pcm_lib_preallocate_pages
[   41.155300] snd_emu10k1: disagrees about version of symbol snd_pcm_period_elapsed
[   41.155302] snd_emu10k1: Unknown symbol snd_pcm_period_elapsed

I've had a lot of weird problems with modules since I upgrade from 7.10 to 8.04. I'm going to try a clean install again.

Edit Nevermind, found a copy of 7.10 in case 8.04 doesn't work clean.

Edit 2

Just got 8.04 up and running, everything works fine. Should have done this a week ago.