See if the Volume/Mute/Brightness works if you hold the "Fn" key simultaneously. There's an "Fn Lock" setting in the BIOS and/or software-accessible that gets toggled inadvertently. Just this week, I had customers complaining their Wifi keeps getting turned off, and their F8 is no longer working like it used to, and that was the cause.
On Tue, Aug 13, 2019 at 4:27 AM Ian Pilcher <arequip...@gmail.com> wrote: > I have a Dell Precision 5520 laptop (basically an XPS 15). The volume, > mute, and brightness "function" keys have always just worked on this > laptop with no additional configuration required ... until now. > > Something has changed in the last week or two, and the keys no longer > have any effect (except that the brightness increase key now toggles > the maximized state of terminal windows). > > Anyone else seen this recently? > > Assuming no, anyone have any hints on how to debug this? I'm not really > sure how these function keys work (i.e. are they keypresses, ACPI > events, something else?). > > Any thoughts appreciated. Thanks! > > -- > ======================================================================== > Ian Pilcher arequip...@gmail.com > -------- "I grew up before Mark Zuckerberg invented friendship" -------- > ======================================================================== > _______________________________________________ > users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org > To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org > Fedora Code of Conduct: > https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ > List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines > List Archives: > https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@lists.fedoraproject.org > -- Ted Roche Ted Roche & Associates, LLC http://www.tedroche.com
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