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

[fra-dl-no-spam@tourde.org (François TOURDE)]

Le 12506ième jour après Epoch,
Derek Broughton écrivait:

> François TOURDE wrote:
>
>> Jaap Haitsma écrivait:
>>>
>>>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.
> ...
>>>So my obvious question how do I get this working in Debian??
>> 2 steps:
>> - Check the kernel for Dell Keyboard (CONFIG_I8K=y)
>> - apt-get install i8kutils
>
> It _could_ work, but since this is for Dell Inspiron 8000 series and
> doesn't even work for most Inspirons, it's pretty unlikely to work for
> a Latitude.

Ok. It _could_ ... But *it* *works* on my Dell Latitude C840. It
probably depends on BIOS version. A try to use differents one can be
done too.

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