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'Top' keys disabled on Macbook (how do I fix it?)

  • 05-06-2008 9:43pm
    #1
    Rollo Tamasi
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,514 ✭✭✭


    Howdi folks,
    The top bar of keys on my Macbook are disabled for some reason. Not sure how it happened or how to resolve it. The keys in question are 'esc' 'less bright' 'more bright' 'mute' 'sound down' 'sound up' 'etc'. The only key that's working is Numlock. I must have accidently hit a combo of keys to turn on the 'F' keys. I thought 'fn' may have been the culprit but press that key has no effect. (and now for some reason I can't get into keyboard and mice in Sys Prfs, erm...)


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  • #2
    Ham'nd'egger
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,025 ✭✭✭Ham'nd'egger


    Rollo Tamasi wrote: »
    Howdi folks,
    The top bar of keys on my Macbook are disabled for some reason. Not sure how it happened or how to resolve it. The keys in question are 'esc' 'less bright' 'more bright' 'mute' 'sound down' 'sound up' 'etc'. The only key that's working is Numlock. I must have accidently hit a combo of keys to turn on the 'F' keys. I thought 'fn' may have been the culprit but press that key has no effect. (and now for some reason I can't get into keyboard and mice in Sys Prfs, erm...)

    Did anybody feck with your settings in System Preferences lately? It's the main point of call for setting issues that need to be sorted.


  • #3
    Rollo Tamasi
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,514 ✭✭✭Rollo Tamasi


    nope, nobody touched my MB.
    Funny thing is that the keys are working now. Odd.
    Maybe some application crashed which in turn caused a problem with the keyboard or something..


  • #4
    440Hz
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,424 ✭✭✭440Hz


    Bit of a strange one alright! Good that it fixed itself though :)


  • #5
    monkeyfudge
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,216 ✭✭✭✭monkeyfudge


    Oddly right now I have to have my Num Lock key in the on position in order disable the Num Lock on my MacBook Pro.


  • #6
    ZENER
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,163 ✭✭✭ZENER


    monkeyfudge wrote: »
    Oddly right now I have to have my Num Lock key in the on position in order disable the Num Lock on my MacBook Pro.

    Yeah I had that before, must be a fuzzy-logic thing from the 90's or something ?! Rights itself after a reboot.:confused:

    ZEN


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