FC-2 laptop question

[Cam]

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


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camilo at mesias.co.uk                                                 <--