Re: Re: Does i8k work for dell inspiron 600M?
well, I tried already on my inspiron 600m setting i8k as a module and
forcing it. So I can see now the i8k module up and running:
% lsmod
Module Size Used by
...
i8k 7184 1
However although I also have set the buttons for increasing/decreasing
volume, the keys just don't work at all (i8kutils already installed):
% cat /etc/i8kbuttons
I8KBUTTONS_UP_CMD="amixer set Master 1+"
I8KBUTTONS_DOWN_CMD="amixer set Master 1-"
I8KBUTTONS_MUTE_CMD="amixer set Master toggle"
# Poll interval (milliseconds)
I8KBUTTONS_TIMEOUT=100
# Autorepeat interval (milliseconds)
I8KBUTTONS_REPEAT=0
They simply don't work. I haven't tried yet, however xmodmap must be
an alternative under X, although I'd go for a more general approach
covering X and non X environment...
So unless 2 inspiron 600m may have different hardware, I would think
i8k buttons don't work for inspiron 600m...
Javier.
On 7/29/05, Rusty Carruth <rustyc@descomp.com> wrote:
> Well, I don't know about the 600m, but I JUST managed to get i8k to
> work on my Inspiron 8100 by using the i8k=force that Christian
> suggested (along with an 'update-modules' and a reboot). It was
> extremely unreliable before that (I had it work ONCE in all my
> fiddling).
>
> So, in summary:
>
> config your kernel to use i8k as a module (I forget how I
> did that, see the other articles in the sequence)
>
> edit (as root) /etc/modules and either add the line:
>
> i8k force=1
>
> or add 'force=1' to whatever i8k info is there already.
>
> Then, run (again, as root) update-modules, and reboot.
>
> If you want fan control, go get the i8kfan utils:
>
> http://www.diefer.de/i8kfan/
>
> build (as per instructions), then './i8kfan 1 1' will force
> both fans on all the time (and you don't have to be root,
> unless you go modify stuff to force that).
>
> NOTE - all the above is under 2.6 kernel and sarge!
>
>
> Note also - theoretically the above should work on the 8000,
> the 8100, AND the 8200. I know that I managed to get i8kfan
> to work on an Inspiron 8000 as well (using Mandrake and
> kernel 2.2 or 2.4, and doing different things (I had to load
> the i8k module manually, IIRC).
>
> Now, all I have to do is get the stupid IRDA and the scsi
> emulation to work (correctly, as it were).
>
> rc
>
>
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