Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [BUG] laptop keyboard, even more info | From | Arne Koewing <> | Date | Fri, 28 Mar 2003 10:05:16 +0100 |
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Warren Turkal <wturkal@cbu.edu> writes:
> On Sunday 23 March 2003 08:36 pm, Warren Turkal wrote: >> I am not subscribed. Please cc on replies. >> >> I have a Gateway 600 series notebook. I have been using and testing the >> developmental kernel for some time now. I have just noticed that my >> keyboard''s "fn" key combinations stop working upon booting 2.5.65. They >> worked as recently as 2.5.63 and I could not get 2.5.64 to compile cleanly. >> These key combinations are supposed to make various things happen on my >> laptop. I believe that they are controlled by the bios, as I can see >> results of some while on the bios load screen. >> ... >> >> 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.
Arne
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