Keyboard Media Keys not working after 2.4.5->2.4.12 upgrade

[Jason Healy <jhealy@logn.net>]

Hey there,

I have a Microsoft Natural Keyboard Pro, which has those funny little
media keys at the top (Back, Forward, Mail, Mute, My Computer, etc).

These keys work fine for me under 2.4.5 (stock debian kernel).  They
work in X (I can bind commands to them), and while they don't work on
the console, 'showkeys' at least prints "unrecognized scancode 000e"
when I hit them.

Now, I hosed a perfectly good 120 uptime to upgrade to 2.4.12 (again,
stock kernel), and now the keys don't work.  No events are generated
in X (according to xev), and nothing shows up on the console
(according to showkeys).

Does anybody know what changed between 2.4.5 and 2.4.12 that would
cause the keycodes to no longer be generated/recognized by the kernel?

Thanks,

Jason

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