On my Dell Inspiron I had a problem with no "Fn" key * Function key commands were recognized and found after researching the problem this is solved by editing grub.conf to include "acpi=off" on the line that calls the kernel. Once you reboot and make sure APM daemon is running your "Fn" Key + Sleep key should work. Fred On Tue, 2005-02-01 at 22:08 -0500, Chris Ruprecht wrote: > Harry, > > On Tuesday 01 February 2005 21:49, Harry Hoffman wrote: > > Chris, > > > > Awesome! glad to hear it was solvable. What's the problem you are having > > with alsamixer? > > The problem is that there is no sound. There is a little trick that some > people have suggested: open alsamixer and set Head Phone Jack Sense and Line > Jack Sense to 'Mute'. But that hasn't made a different. > system-config-soundcard has detected the card but when I click the 'Play Test > Sound' button, there is only silence. Volume level is about 3/4 up. > > I read somewhere that this is an unsolved issue in Thinkpads. Another unsolved > issue seems to be, that I can't get the machine to sleep. It worked once, > only once, but when I woke it up again, it went to shut itself down (clean). > This is one area where I must say, Apple did a great job with OS X and their > Powerbooks. My powerbook goes to sleep within less than a second and wake up > is instant. > > Best regards, > Chris > > PS. Trying sound from KDE instead of GNOME - same (no) result. >
