Public bug reported:
Hiya,
I've been doing some investigating on this issue and again I have tried
search for duplicates etc. and cannot find it. I was also going to
report Fn+F7 as no longer working since Feisty, but I understand that is
intended due to the ATI driver.
Anyway, in Feisty pressing Fn+F5 would cycle the wifi on and off. Put
simply this no longer works in Gutsy. My T40 does not have the Bluetooth
module, just the Intel 2100B wireless card.
If I poke:
# echo enable,0xffff >/proc/acpi/ibm/hotkey
It then works (presumably having switched all the hotkey bits on) but
the downside is that the volume on screen display no longer works. I'm
sort of guessing this is because the volume is controlled in hardware
having poked that value into hotkeys, but I don't know for sure as I
sort of know what I'm doing but I'm no Linux guru. (Also the screen
brightness on screen display no longer functions but again I think it's
related to screen brightness now being controlled in hardware.)
What is the problem here? I need to cycle the wifi on and off to save on
battery when on the road and as time goes by I'm considering going back
to Feisty where this all worked, but I would miss having Xorg 7.3 and
Xrandr 1.2 greatly.
What changed? Can this please be looked into and fixed at all?
Thanks,
Vicky
** Affects: hotkeys (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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Fn F5 Does not Switch off Wifi in Gutsy - Thinkpad T40 Regression
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/158634
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