Update: Kernel 2.6.30 and up (yet to be released) will contain auto-detection enhancements to the sony-laptop driver. This will it autodetect and enable (at least) FN-keys on all the newer sony laptops (the set of special 'mode' keys present on the Sony VAIO SR will also work). This fixes (for all models for now) at least the kernel side of this issue.
With respect to the original bug report, this autodetection will (consistently) produce kernel level events for at least: Brightness Up, Brightness Down, switch video output, zoom, sleep, S1 (I am not sure about 'AV Mode') These are also in 'hal quirks' for sony laptop as far as I can see, so these keys should definitely have effect in userspace / on the desktop. Maybe these enhancements (as soon as they land in 2.6.30, i suspect 2.6.30-rc2) can be backported (at some point) into 2.6.28 for the next Ubuntu release (or as an update shortly after that release), but that's up to the Ubuntu kernel team. -- Fn keys on VAIO don't produce keystrokes nor ACPI events https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/251665 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
