Fn-key support?

[Adam Huffman]

Does anyone know the best way of getting support for Fn keys? (both on
my Vaio S1XP and more generally)

In my case, I've loaded the sonypi module but I can't assign the Fn
volume shortcuts to the volume actions in Gnome, for instance, as they
aren't detected.

There has been support for this when I've been running other
distributions, so I know it can be done.  I'm happy to try and do some
of the work myself but am not quite sure where to start.


Adam

[Julian Yap]

Try the menu System > Preferences > Keyboard Shortcuts.

On 11/20/06, bloch(a)verdurin.com <bloch(a)verdurin.com&gt; wrote:
>  Does anyone know the best way of getting support for Fn keys? (both
> on
>  my Vaio S1XP and more generally)
>
>  In my case, I've loaded the sonypi module but I can't assign the Fn
>  volume shortcuts to the volume actions in Gnome, for instance, as they
>  aren't detected.
>
>  There has been support for this when I've been running other
>  distributions, so I know it can be done.  I'm happy to try and do some
>  of the work myself but am not quite sure where to start.
>
>
>  Adam
>
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[Adam Huffman]

On Tue, 21 Nov 2006, Julian Yap wrote:

>  Try the menu System > Preferences > Keyboard Shortcuts. 
The problem is that these key combinations are not detected, so I can't
assign them to anything.

Adam

[Till Maas]

On Monday 20 November 2006 23:31, bloch(a)verdurin.com wrote:

>  There has been support for this when I've been running other
>  distributions, so I know it can be done.  I'm happy to try and do some
>  of the work myself but am not quite sure where to start. 
I have a thinkpad, for which there is a special application (tpb - thinkpad 
buttons), that somehow manages to get the information. Maybe there is 
something like this for sony notebooks, too. Some other keys provide acpi 
events (tail -f /var/log/acpid shows them), which can run scripts 
in /etc/acpi/events. Also you can look with xev whether or not the buttons 
provide xevents, then you can map them with xmodmap e.g. to F13 or something 
and use them this way.

There is a lot of documentation for thinkpads on 
http://thinkwiki.org/wiki/ThinkWiki, maybe you can use something of it, too.

And "yum search sony" spits out:
spicctrl.i386                            1.9-5.fc6              extras
Matched from:
Sony Vaio laptop SPIC control program
spicctrl queries and sets a variety of parameters on Sony Vaio laptop
computers, including AC Power status, battery status, screen brightness,
and bluetooth device power status
http://popies.net/sonypi/

On http://popies.net/sonypi/ you also find some information about using 
special keys.


Regards,
Till

[Jarosław Górny]

Dnia środa, 22 listopada 2006 15:44, bloch(a)verdurin.com napisał:
>  On Tue, 21 Nov 2006, Julian Yap wrote:
>  > Try the menu System > Preferences > Keyboard Shortcuts.
>
>  The problem is that these key combinations are not detected, so I can't
>  assign them to anything.
>  
Are You sure? Have You tried with 'xev' for example?


-- 
Jaroslaw Gorny