Hello Marcelo, On Mon, 3 Dec 2007 20:02:39 -0300 "Marcelo Magno T. Sales" <mmtsales@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Em Seg 03 Dez 2007, Phil Meyer escreveu: > > Marcelo Magno T. Sales wrote: > > > Hi, people > > > > > > The Fn keys of my notebook do not generate scancodes, but ACPI > > > events instead. I would like to map these events to X keysyms, so > > > that the Fn keys are usable in X. How do I do that? > > > The F8 kernel (2.6.23.1-49.fc8) and acpid get the ACPI events and > > > logs messages like the following (F7 kernels and F7 acpid did not): > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------- > > >-- Dec 3 18:17:23 home-03 acpid: received event "hotkey ATKD > > > 00000050 00000000" > > > Dec 3 18:17:23 home-03 acpid: notifying client 2169[68:68] > > > Dec 3 18:17:23 home-03 acpid: notifying client 2354[0:0] > > > Dec 3 18:17:23 home-03 acpid: completed event "hotkey ATKD > > > 00000050 00000000" > > > Dec 3 18:17:23 home-03 acpid: received event "hotkey ATKD 00000051 > > > 00000000" > > > Dec 3 18:17:23 home-03 acpid: notifying client 2169[68:68] > > > Dec 3 18:17:23 home-03 acpid: notifying client 2354[0:0] > > > Dec 3 18:17:23 home-03 acpid: completed event "hotkey ATKD > > > 00000051 00000000" > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------- > > >-- > > > > > > > > > Other Fn keys (the ones to control LCD brightness) produce errors > > > like: > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------- > > >-- Dec 3 18:17:34 home-03 kernel: ACPI Error (psargs-0355): > > > [\_SB_.PCI0.P0P2.VGA_.LCDD] Namespace lookup failure, AE_NOT_FOUND > > > Dec 3 18:17:34 home-03 kernel: ACPI Error (psparse-0537): Method > > > parse/execution failed [\_SB_.PCI0.SBRG.EC0_._Q0E] (Node f7d07f90), > > > AE_NOT_FOUND > > > Dec 3 18:17:35 home-03 kernel: ACPI Error (psargs-0355): > > > [\_SB_.PCI0.P0P2.VGA_.LCDD] Namespace lookup failure, AE_NOT_FOUND > > > Dec 3 18:17:35 home-03 kernel: ACPI Error (psparse-0537): Method > > > parse/execution failed [\_SB_.PCI0.SBRG.EC0_._Q0F] (Node f7d07fa8), > > > AE_NOT_FOUND > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------- > > >-- > > > > > > Is it possible to make these work? > > > > > > Thanks, > > > > > > Marcelo > > > > The <FN>brightness keys work out of the box on all the laptops I have > > built. I am no help there. > > > > As for using other keys, in GNOME, you can map keys with: > > > > System/Preferences/Personal/Keyboard Shortcuts > > Thanks for your help, but to do this the keys would have to be > recognized by X already, wouldn't they? In my case, xev shows nothing. > X does not know when the keys are pressed. The only response I get when > I press the Fn keys are these acpi events registered in system log. [snip] And nothing in /var/log/messages like the following? kernel: atkbd.c: Unknown key pressed (translated set 2, code 0x85 on isa0060/serio0). kernel: atkbd.c: Use 'setkeycodes e005 <keycode>' to make it known. Regards, -- wwp
