Re: how to get the volume keys working on a Dell Latitude

[Jaap Haitsma <jaap@haitsma.org>]

François TOURDE wrote:
> Le 12505ième jour après Epoch,
> Jaap Haitsma écrivait:
>
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > I'm trying to attach the Fn-VolumeUp and Fn-VolumeDown of my Dell
> > laptop to the volume up and volume down action in acme. The problem is
> > that my Debian set up does not get an event when Fn combined with
> > another key is pressed. I.e. if I launch showkey -s in a console no
> > key codes are shown when I press Fn + volumeup or volumedown.
> >
> > It should be possible to get this keyevents because if I run the
> > Gnoppix live CD showkey -s shows the key codes for the Fn combinations
> >
> > So my obvious question how do I get this working in Debian??
>
>
> 2 steps:
>
> - Check the kernel for Dell Keyboard (CONFIG_I8K=y)

The Debian 2.4.25 kernel package doesn't have this enabled :(
So I installed the 2.6.4 kernel which has this enabled, and now it works :-)


> - apt-get install i8kutils

This is not necessary in my case, I just needed to get the scancodes 
when the Fn combos are used. I then used acme to tie the keys to the 
actions I wanted and therefore do not need the utils

Thanks for your help

Jaap