Re: [BUG] laptop keyboard, even more info

From: Warren Turkal (wturkal@cbu.edu)
Date: Fri Mar 28 2003 - 16:50:14 EST


On Friday 28 March 2003 01:36 pm, Felipe Alfaro Solana wrote:
> On Fri, 2003-03-28 at 10:05, Arne Koewing wrote:
> > >> I have tested that the Fn-F2 combination works in bios and grub and
> > >> continues to work until the 2.5.65 kernel is loaded.
> > >>
> > >> I think this is a regression in the keyboard handling for the 2.5.65
> > >> kernel....
> >
> > I don't think this is caused by the input-layer. Linux is not passing
> > Fn-X keypresses to your BIOS. If you've enabled ACPI that ought to be
> > the reason for this.
>
> Also, XFree86 4.3.0 seems to inhibit Fn key combinations on some
> scenarios. On my laptop, I can't use Fn+F3 to switch between LCD and CRT
> while running X.

Fn key gets killed before X. Also, it works fine in X when I am in 2.5.63.

Warren

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