On Tuesday 28 February 2006 13:01, Giuseppe Bilotta wrote: > On Tue, 28 Feb 2006 07:37:38 -0500, Jonathan Jesse wrote: > > Fn+End should mute, but doesn't work > > Fn+Up increases the brightness which works correctly > > Fn+Down decreases the brightness which works correctly > > Support for these keys in X is obtained with the "inspiron" keyboard > model (at least on Inspirons, but Latitudes should work just the > same). > > However, this won't suffice with kernel 2.6 (it does work with kernel > 2.4), due to the new input model which doesn't by default map some > scancodes to anything useful. I solved this by creating a fix_keys > file in my /etc/init.d directory, with the lines > > setkeycodes e001 171 > setkeycodes e002 172 > setkeycodes e003 187 > setkeycodes e004 189 > > and symlinking it from /etc/rcS.d > > (I'm running a standard Debian, not Kubuntu.) > > > -- > Giuseppe "Oblomov" Bilotta > > "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain > a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty > nor safety." Benjamin Franklin
Shouldn't stuff like this just work right out of the box? That I shouldn't be forced to select a laptop type that doesn't match the type of laptop I'm using. Could be confusing for normal people? -- laptop-testing-team mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/laptop-testing-team
