Re: fn keys in FX270

[David Poisson <david@fishy.ca>]

Hi Mark,
	Thanks for the quick reply.

	I just went in console and I didn't get any error messages in the
kernel. Although, when I hit FN+F5, I did get a list of FN functions
that are supported by the laptop and my cdrom did eject when I came
across FN+F10. Although my sound keys don't work.

Fish

On Thu, 2002-04-25 at 09:55, Mark Janssen wrote:
> On Thu, 2002-04-25 at 15:49, David Poisson wrote:
> > 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).
> 
> Go to the console (Ctrl-Alt-F1) and log in as root.
> 
> Now press the buttons.... if the kernel prints something in the line of
> unrecognized keycode 0E ??
> 
> then you need to add these keycodes to the kernel (or ask the maintainer
> of the dell patch to do it for you)
> 
> It's in <linuxsrc>/drivers/char/pc_keyb.c
> 
> Just patched my own kernel this week to support the keys on my clevo
> laptop this way.
> 
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