Summary: I updated
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Enabling_XO_features_on_other_distributions
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Keyboard_shortcuts
and several other pages, but mysteries remain.
p...@laptop.org usefully responded:
I have zero clue where to find the keymapping
file or configuration utility.
s wrote:
Summary: I updated
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Enabling_XO_features_on_other_distributions
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Keyboard_shortcuts
and several other pages, but mysteries remain.
p...@laptop.org usefully responded:
I have zero clue where to find the keymapping
It seems that the implementations for volume and brightness keys are handled
separately from the remainder of the keyboard in most laptops. I have
recently been installing Linux in various older laptops, some with gnome,
some with xfce, and have found the laptop special keys scripts in
/etc/acpi.
at the OS level the brightness and volume keys are just the standard
F9-F12 keys
if you look at the 'keyboard shortcuts' page on the wiki they are even
documented that way (or at least I think they were at one point)
it's Sugar that decides to monkey with the brightness and volume when