From: Warren Turkal <wturkal@cbu.edu>
To: Felipe Alfaro Solana <felipe_alfaro@linuxmail.org>,
Arne Koewing <ark@gmx.net>
Cc: LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [BUG] laptop keyboard, even more info
Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2003 15:50:14 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200303281550.14426.wturkal@cbu.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1048880210.598.1.camel@teapot>
On Friday 28 March 2003 01:36 pm, Felipe Alfaro Solana wrote:
> 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.
Fn key gets killed before X. Also, it works fine in X when I am in 2.5.63.
Warren
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Treasurer, GOLUM, Inc.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-03-28 21:39 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
2003-03-28 21:50 ` Warren Turkal [this message]
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
2003-03-28 14:00 [BUG] laptop keyboard, even more info wturkal
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