A big "What the heck" moment for me.
My Media keys stopped working. My "volume" wheel is still working though.
I am using a Razor Ornata v2 and it worked absolutely fine.
Decided to listen to some music and then they stopped working and i cant set them as shortcuts either.
Again, they worked before but now they dont
Would be cool if someone could help me
EDIT I tried resetting my keyboard settings already, even unplugged the damn thing and plugged it back in and OFC rebooted many times. meh
To segrigate a hardware problem from a software problem, could you try it out with another OS, such as Windows or Live USB of any Linux distro.
If you encounter the same issue, then it is likely your hardware that gone bad.
On the other hand, if your problem does not occur, then it is your currently installed OS that has a problem.
Here is something funny, when i press the buttons while texting or something, this happens: bcdfhjklmnprstenprstefhjklhjklfhjklefhjklhjklbcdhjklbcdbcdbcd
They type 3 letters and also depending on the combination, for example each key will produce a bcd but when i spam them "bcdfhjklbcdfhjklbcdhjklbcdefhjklnprstbcdhjklfhjklbcdhjkl" this happens.
It must be software, they worked before. But okay, i will quickly boot into a live USB
You may need to open your Keyboard Settings and bind your media keys to the proper keys simply by adding it as a shortcut.
Once done - it should stay done, regardless of updates.
sudo apt install --reinstall playerctl <- Reinstalled, no error there.
But my media keys still do this "bcd" instead of actually being recognized as media keys. I also cant bind those keys in the shortcut, they are not being detected.
What happen if you press fn key and those media keys at the same time? Sometime media keys are mapped as real function keys and additional key is required to make them work as media keys.
They just activate my keys for "gaming" mode that disables the Special Key for example, or turn off/on LEDs on the keyboard. They all work fine.
The mediakeys itself are standalone keys you know what i mean
They are above the numpad, no FN key required to use them.
And if i try to use FN with it together nothing happens obviously =(
The "game mode" is just to disable the special key and i can see it activate with LEds. Dont worry there is nothing with my keyboard that should interfere here.
Just normal media keys without FN
It is beautiful.
I like the colour of the backlight.
But really, I cannot think of any solution other than what I have told you already. If you are using GNOME desktop (Zorin 16 Core/ultimate) version, you might want to try Zorin 15 Lite (XFCE desktop) to see if it helps.
