Re: fn keys in FX270

[David Poisson <david@fishy.ca>]

I was playing around with xev to see the keycodes that the FN+SoundUp,
FN+SoundDown keys would give on my Dell Inspiron 4100 and it didn't
register any events whatsoever. Does anyone knows if this would be
something handled by X events or lower (eg: contact the maintainer of
the Dell Inspiron Laptop kernel patch).

Thanks!

Fish

On Sun, 2002-04-21 at 17:13, Ionel Mugurel Ciobica wrote:
> În data de 20-04-2002, la 15h 40'06", rajeshvetti@netscape.net scria despre "fn keys in FX270":
> > 
> > Hi All,
> > 
> >    Is there way to make the function keys work in sony-vaio FX270 (running woody)?
> > 
> > rajesh.
> > 
> > sorry for mailing again - i left out 'subject' in the last mail! 
> > 
> > 
> 
> I have a Vaio FX401. I just made the Fn work. Before it just hang my
> notebook. If this is your case too, then you should recompile the kernel
> with the ACPI patches from sourceforge.net/projects/acpi. I run the
> kernel 2.4.18 with that ACPI patches.
> 
> Then, you have to add few lines in the .xmodmap file, like that:
> 
> keycode 0xB0 = XF86AudioRaiseVolume
> keycode 0xAE = XF86AudioLowerVolume
> keycode 0xA0 = XF86AudioMute
> keycode 0xDF = XF86ScreenSaver
> 
> I use fvwm2 as windows manager, then I add this in my ~/.fvwm2rc:
> 
> Key XF86AudioMute        A N Exec exec '/usr/sbin/sound'
> Key XF86AudioLowerVolume A N Exec exec '/usr/sbin/lowervolume'
> Key XF86AudioRaiseVolume A N Exec exec '/usr/sbin/raisevolume'
> Key XF86ScreenSaver      A N Exec exec '/usr/bin/xscreensaver'
> 
> Where /usr/sbin/lowervolume is:
> 
> #!/bin/sh
> /usr/bin/aumix -v 100 -w -1
> 
> and /usr/sbin/raisevolume is:
> 
> #!/bin/sh
> /usr/bin/aumix -v 100 -w +1
> 
> The /usr/sbin/sound is a script to mute and unmute the sound:
> 
> #!/bin/sh
> if [ -f ~/.aumixtmp ] ; then
>      echo -n "Restoring volume to 40"
>      aumix -v 100 -w 40
>      rm ~/.aumixtmp
>      echo "."
>      exit 1
> else
>      echo -n Muting
>      touch ~/.aumixtmp
>      aumix -v 0
>      echo "."
>      exit 1  
> fi  
> exit 0
> 
> it can be better, I know, but I am not good in scripts...
> 
> If you don't use fvwm2, well check in your window manager how you could
> do some similar things... If you use icewm check at
> http://www.gaugusch.at/vaio/ (there is a link there for kde too).
> 
> I hope it helps.
> 
> Good luck,
> 	Ionel
> 
> 
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