[Debian-eeepc-devel] soft keys stop working

[Ben Armstrong]

On Mon, 27 Jul 2009 15:15:34 +0200
Frédéric Boiteux <fboiteux at calistel.com> wrote:
>   Yes, I get this behaviour from time to time, but didn't identify
> yet the related event / cause, it doesn't occurs so often…

Check to see if acpid has died.  If it has, start it again:

/etc/init.d/acpid start

If your acpid is too old, you might have this problem.  See
http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEeePC/HowTo/Upgrade

Ben