FC6, USB keyboard, and power button

[Philip Walden]

Jonathan Underwood wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have a USB keyboar which I sometimes plug into my laptop to use. It
> is one of those with a power on/off button on it, which is supposed to
> power on/off the computer. This button doesn't do anything though.
> Pressing it doesn't yield any message in the output of dmesg. Does
> anyone have any hints on how to get this button to act as a power
> on/off button for my laptop? I am guessing this is a lost cause due to
> lack of bios support, but thought I' ask anyway.
Try lineak

http://lineak.sourceforge.net/

LinEAK is a utility designed to enable the use and configuration of 
those special keys on Internet, Easy Access and Multimedia keyboards in 
Linux.