Weird keyboard in KDE...

I don`t know what have happened, but right now I`ve got weird keyboard in KDE. When I press <Up> KSnapShot is taking print screen. I cannot browse my console commands in terminal, only in Multi-user runlevel. Direction buttons from numeric part of the keyboard 2-4-6-8 took role of the <Up> <Down> ... buttons. [Delete] button is out of order.  I`ve even lost control over my HP QuickPlay buttons.
What thing did that?
Last edited by Kardell (2008-02-23 21:06:16)

tigrmesh wrote:You are not alone:  http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=44311.
Indeed d0.0b

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