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    Function keys not working in Linux for NC8000 under debian

    Discussion in 'Linux Compatibility and Software' started by wearetheborg, Oct 21, 2007.

  1. wearetheborg

    wearetheborg Notebook Virtuoso

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    The Fn keys are not working, esp the brightness.

    Also, suspend does not work. Can anyone point me in the right direction ?
     
    wearetheborg, Oct 21, 2007
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    what are your system specs? my brightness buttons started working after i installed the nvidia driver.
     
    Fittersman, Oct 22, 2007
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    wearetheborg Notebook Virtuoso

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    HP NC8000 laptop
    1.7ghz pentium M
    64 MB ATI radeon 9600
    UXGA screen

    Actually the brightness controls sudenly started working. Maybe it was because I installed ATI's propritary drivers ??
     
    wearetheborg, Oct 26, 2007
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    Well if there is no simple solution to the Fn key problem that you can find, the 'under the hood' approach I've had to do in the past is to use xev (x events program).

    Run this program and then push the button you're interested in and it will show you the system-level X-event that is generated. Then you can map that event to the proper outcome you are expecting. For example with volume, you might map the + key to run an alsamixer command that increments the volume.

    This is how these things work underneath it all, but it's not always easy to set up....

    As far as suspend, which distro and kernel version are you running?
     
    jeffsmythe, Oct 26, 2007
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    WOW, I cannot believe I missed that.
    I'm using debian etch.

    Actually now suspend works, with
    Code: 
    s2ram -fmsp
    I dunno what the options mean

    Now only the wireless is remaining. I can see the networks, but i cant connect to my hiome WPA-PSK network.
     
    wearetheborg, Oct 27, 2007
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