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From: Felipe Alfaro Solana <felipe_alfaro@linuxmail.org>
To: Arne Koewing <ark@gmx.net>
Cc: Warren Turkal <wturkal@cbu.edu>, LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [BUG] laptop keyboard, even more info
Date: 28 Mar 2003 20:36:50 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1048880210.598.1.camel@teapot> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87y92zr57o.fsf@localhost.i-did-not-set--mail-host-address--so-tickle-me>

On Fri, 2003-03-28 at 10:05, Arne Koewing wrote:
> >> I have tested that the Fn-F2 combination works in bios and grub and
> >> continues to work until the 2.5.65 kernel is loaded.
> >>
> >> I think this is a regression in the keyboard handling for the 2.5.65
> >> kernel....
> 
> I don't think this is caused by the input-layer. Linux is not passing
> Fn-X keypresses to your BIOS. If you've enabled ACPI that ought to be
> the reason for this.

Also, XFree86 4.3.0 seems to inhibit Fn key combinations on some
scenarios. On my laptop, I can't use Fn+F3 to switch between LCD and CRT
while running X.

________________________________________________________________________
        Felipe Alfaro Solana
   Linux Registered User #287198
http://counter.li.org


  reply	other threads:[~2003-03-28 19:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-03-22 12:05 [BUG] laptop keyboard Warren Turkal
2003-03-24  2:56 ` [BUG] laptop keyboard, more info Warren Turkal
2003-03-28  9:05   ` [BUG] laptop keyboard, even " Arne Koewing
2003-03-28 19:36     ` Felipe Alfaro Solana [this message]
2003-03-28 21:50       ` Warren Turkal
2003-03-28 10:41   ` Felipe Alfaro Solana
     [not found]   ` <200303280828.20070.felix.seeger@gmx.de>
2003-03-29  7:42     ` [BUG] laptop keyboard, tracked to ACPI Warren Turkal
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2003-03-28 14:00 [BUG] laptop keyboard, even more info wturkal

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