FC-2 laptop question

[Shaun T. Erickson]

I installed it on my Dell Latitude CPx J750GT, and I love it. One thing 
though - it appears that none of my function keys work. I know that X 
thinks I have a 101-key keyboard - which is wrong - I have an 87-key 
keyboard. I don't know if that's related to the problem or not though.

I'd really like to get things like the suspend key, and the 
brightness/contrast keys working.

Any ideas?

-ste

[Camilo Mesias]

Shaun
> I installed it on my Dell Latitude CPx J750GT, and I love it. One thing 
> though - it appears that none of my function keys work. I know that X 
> thinks I have a 101-key keyboard - which is wrong - I have an 87-key 
> keyboard. I don't know if that's related to the problem or not though.
>
> I'd really like to get things like the suspend key, and the 
> brightness/contrast keys working.
>
> Any ideas?

Congratulations - I've been searching for laptop successes on FC2 and
found few.

Check your /var/log/acpid file to see if you are getting acpi events but 
are not handling them. That may cover the suspend key but not function 
keys (do you mean F1-F12 keyboard function keys or non-standard hard 
buttons eg. mail, web, volume etc)?

I had to remove the default sample.conf file from /etc/acpi/events and 
put in a lid.conf and sleep.conf to properly support the lid action and 
the suspend button.

-Cam

[Shaun T. Erickson]

Cam wrote:
> Check your /var/log/acpid file to see if you are getting acpi events but 
> are not handling them. That may cover the suspend key but not function 
> keys (do you mean F1-F12 keyboard function keys or non-standard hard 
> buttons eg. mail, web, volume etc)?

Suspend, volume up, volume down, volume mute, brightness up, brightness 
down, contrast up, contrast down, crt/lcd ... not all are acpi event driven.
> I had to remove the default sample.conf file from /etc/acpi/events and 
> put in a lid.conf and sleep.conf to properly support the lid action and 
> the suspend button.

Ah, I see. I'll have to do that too. One question: what command should I 
have it run for a lid event, or a suspend button event, and so on? Is 
there a manpage that says what commands are available to use when an 
event is received?

-ste

[Camilo Mesias]

Shaun
> Ah, I see. I'll have to do that too. One question: what command should I 
> have it run for a lid event, or a suspend button event, and so on? Is 
> there a manpage that says what commands are available to use when an 
> event is received?

man acpid, you can generally use any shell commands or a script to do 
pretty much anything.

My lid conf file looks like:
event=button/lid.*
action=echo -n 3 > /proc/acpi/sleep

-Cam

[Shaun T. Erickson]

Cam wrote:
> Shaun
> > Ah, I see. I'll have to do that too. One question: what command should 
> > I have it run for a lid event, or a suspend button event, and so on? 
> > Is there a manpage that says what commands are available to use when 
> > an event is received?
>
> man acpid, you can generally use any shell commands or a script to do 
> pretty much anything.
>
> My lid conf file looks like:
> event=button/lid.*
> action=echo -n 3 > /proc/acpi/sleep

How did you know that that was the correct action to take for the lid? I 
don't see that sort of thing on the apcid man page. I can see what the 
events are from the logs, and the man page tells me what syntax to use 
to tell it what to do for a given event, but it doesn't tell me what I 
can choose from for any given event.

-ste

[Camilo Mesias]

Shaun
> > My lid conf file looks like:
> > event=button/lid.*
> > action=echo -n 3 > /proc/acpi/sleep
>
> How did you know that that was the correct action to take for the lid? I 
> don't see that sort of thing on the apcid man page. I can see what the 
> events are from the logs, and the man page tells me what syntax to use 
> to tell it what to do for a given event, but it doesn't tell me what I 
> can choose from for any given event.

I have a little experience but not with acpi, so I did some google 
searching and background reading. There are some things you can do with 
the /proc/acpi interface to change states, suspend and so on. Some 
people would say that /sys/power/state is more appropriate.

It's not so much what is the correct thing for the lid, as what you want 
the machine to do. If you wanted it to just turn the display off and 
nothing else then you could arrange for that to happen by putting in the 
correct command.

In general you can put shell commands in there so use anything that you 
can do as root from a shell that is the right behaviour.

-Cam

[Robert Spangler]

On Fri May 28 2004 07:26, Cam wrote:
> > I installed it on my Dell Latitude CPx J750GT, and I love it. One thing
> > though - it appears that none of my function keys work. I know that X
> > thinks I have a 101-key keyboard - which is wrong - I have an 87-key
> > keyboard. I don't know if that's related to the problem or not though.
> >
> > I'd really like to get things like the suspend key, and the
> > brightness/contrast keys working.
>
> Congratulations - I've been searching for laptop successes on FC2 and
>  found few.

I installed FC2 on my IBM Thinkpad 600x last night and the function keys are 
working here without having to fiddle with anything.

[Satish Balay]

On Sat, 29 May 2004, Robert Spangler wrote:
> On Fri May 28 2004 07:26, Cam wrote:
> > > I installed it on my Dell Latitude CPx J750GT, and I love it. One thing
> > > though - it appears that none of my function keys work. I know that X
> > > thinks I have a 101-key keyboard - which is wrong - I have an 87-key
> > > keyboard. I don't know if that's related to the problem or not though.
> > >
> > > I'd really like to get things like the suspend key, and the
> > > brightness/contrast keys working.
> >
> > Congratulations - I've been searching for laptop successes on FC2 and
> >  found few.
>
> I installed FC2 on my IBM Thinkpad 600x last night and the function keys are
> working here without having to fiddle with anything.

Thats because the kernel detects the bios is too old - and loads APM
(not ACPI). And Fn-F4 suspend and other functions work with APM
without any extra configuration.

Satish

[Ow Mun Heng]

On Thu, 2004-05-27 at 18:40, Shaun T. Erickson wrote:
> I installed it on my Dell Latitude CPx J750GT, and I love it. One thing 
> though - it appears that none of my function keys work. I know that X 
> thinks I have a 101-key keyboard - which is wrong - I have an 87-key 
> keyboard. I don't know if that's related to the problem or not though.

Dell D600

Identifier  "Keyboard0"
        Driver      "keyboard"
        Option      "XkbRules" "xfree86"
        Option      "XkbModel" "pc105"
        Option      "XkbLayout" "us"
EndSection
> I'd really like to get things like the suspend key, and the 
> brightness/contrast keys working.

Works on Mine, unfortunately. and mine's defaulted to 105 keys...

Did it work previously for FC1?
> Any ideas?
>
> -ste