From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Samsung 90X3A Fn Keys
Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2011 18:59:01 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20111017185901.GA17347@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAD6YvxT8M6mR-2HuoetQ9BnowJgVSG2YXBRFhg-t1dAoR9TAyA@mail.gmail.com>
On Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 08:55:32PM +0200, Victor Engmark wrote:
> n Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 8:00 PM, Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> wrote:
> > On Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 03:10:45PM +1100, Ian Coleman wrote:
> >> I am trying to get the Fn+F7 and Fn+F8 keys working on my Samsung
> >> laptop, model 90X3A. These map to 'keyboard illumination down' and
> >> 'keyboard illumination up', which sets the brightness of the LEDs
> >> behind the keyboard.
> >>
> >> I have started a thread here
> >> http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t\x1751914 about this issue
> >>
> >> I have managed to get the scan code (0x96 and 0x97) to respond with
> >> the correct key code (kbdillumup and kbdillumdown) when I run
> >> /lib/udev/keymap -i input/event4
> >>
> >> However the keyboard backlight level still does not change when these
> >> buttons are pressed.
> >
> > Are you using the proper kernel driver for this laptop (samsung-laptop)
> > that provides the ability to change the backlight levels?
> >
> > If not, the keys themselves are not going to do anything on their own,
> > sorry.
>
> Is there an Ubuntu package for this?
It should be in your kernel already, if not, go bug the Ubuntu
developers to enable the configuration option.
greg k-h
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-10-17 18:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-10-17 4:10 Samsung 90X3A Fn Keys Ian Coleman
2011-10-17 18:00 ` Greg KH
2011-10-17 18:55 ` Victor Engmark
2011-10-17 18:59 ` Greg KH [this message]
2011-10-18 4:41 ` Martin Pitt
2011-10-18 4:48 ` Martin Pitt
2011-10-18 7:26 ` Victor Engmark
2011-10-18 7:41 ` Victor Engmark
2011-10-18 7:48 ` Ian Coleman
2011-10-18 14:12 ` Greg KH
2011-10-24 17:20 ` Tomasz Chmielewski
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