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    Thinkpad X61 Tablet screen bezel buttons not working

    Discussion in 'Lenovo' started by neurod, Jun 25, 2014.

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    Thinkpad X61 tablet running linux mint 17

    The buttons on the screen bezel (rotate, esc, Left, right, etc..) do not work. I have zero output when I run showkey or xkeybind

    I'm not too sure when these keys stopped working. Recently I installed linux mint 17 and got magic rotate to work, so I've been taking notes with xournal and actually using the wacom ability. I know they did work at one time (Ive only ran Linux on this laptop), not sure if they stopped working when I updated to mint 17 or when I opened the laptop up to clean the fan (about 8 months ago)

    I'm trying to figure out if this is simply a software fix, or if the the fact that showkey does not give an output then that means its a hardware issue.

    Any insight would be greatly appreciated.
     
    neurod, Jun 25, 2014
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