multimedia keys stop working after enabling keyboard layouts

[sveri]

I have Microsoft Natural Multimedia Keyboard 1.0A.

Scince Kde 4.1 IIRC my Multimedia Keys stop working when i enable the
keyboard layout in the kde system settings.

Meaning i can choose the next track, increase and decrease volume with
my keyboard right after a fresh install of kde 4.1, but after i enabled
keyboard layouts and choose the german layout as second one they
stop working.

So i go to System Settings -> Keyboard & Mouse -> Keyboard Shortcuts
and want to reassign the keys to their function but if i press one
of the multimedia keys they aren't recognized anymore.

The first time this happened to me was on 8.04
when the ppa's kde 4.1 packages were released and i upgraded
to them.

Right now i use the updated 8.10 on an amd64 architecture.

After the upgrade to 8.10 i choose a fresh kde 4.1 configuration
so my multimedia keys worked until i enabled keyboard layouts
today.

I hope this was not too confusing, at least it took me a very long
time until i figured out what makes them stop working.

[Jonathan Thomas (echidnaman)]

I can confirm this issue. Subscribing Jonathan Riddell to this bug since he added the "use-multimedia-keys" functionality patch to the Kubuntu packages.

[Jan Köhler (jan.k)]

I have a similar issue, could be the same bug - could be something else.
I'm using Kubuntu 9.04 (beta) x86 with KDE 4.2.2.
My keyboard is Chery - eVolution Stream Corded Multimedia Keyboard.
After some hours logged in, the keys stop working. Un->In-plugging the keyboard doesn't fix the problem.
Restarting the X-server does.
The bug is hard to reproduce, for it seems to occur only after some hours of working.
If you have some suggestion what kind of actions cause this behavior, I'll be happy to try it out.

[Harald Sitter (apachelogger)]

Is this still an issue on Kubuntu 9.10?

[Jonathan Thomas (echidnaman)]

We are closing this bug report because it lacks the information we need to investigate the problem, as requested in the previous comments. Please reopen it if you can give us the missing information, and don't hesitate to submit bug reports in the future. To reopen the bug report you can click on the current status, under the "Status" column, and change the status back to "New". Thanks again!