For what it's worth it does not appear to be fixed in the latest 8.10 alpha.
The only Fn key combinations that work as expected on my X61s is:
- Mute
- Volume up/down (only for unmuting - the actual volume level does not change)
- Keyboard light
- Radio on/off (WLAN+Bluetooth toggle)
I suspect most of these are handled by hardware. I know that at least before brightness up/down and suspend worked in earlier versions of Ubuntu, and kind of miss those... I think volume up/down used to work too.
I can see most of the buttons generate ACPI events when pressing with acpi_listen running, the brightness buttons also generate lines starting with «video LCD0» as well as the normal «ibm/hotkey HKEY» ones.
There's a few exceptions though, the volume up/down and mute buttons does not generate events that are visible from acpi_listen, neither does the back/forward/play/pause/stop ones. All of these (except mute) generate X key presses that can be seen with xev, all NoSymbol.
For what it's worth it does not appear to be fixed in the latest 8.10 alpha.
The only Fn key combinations that work as expected on my X61s is:
- Mute
- Volume up/down (only for unmuting - the actual volume level does not change)
- Keyboard light
- Radio on/off (WLAN+Bluetooth toggle)
I suspect most of these are handled by hardware. I know that at least before brightness up/down and suspend worked in earlier versions of Ubuntu, and kind of miss those... I think volume up/down used to work too.
I can see most of the buttons generate ACPI events when pressing with acpi_listen running, the brightness buttons also generate lines starting with «video LCD0» as well as the normal «ibm/hotkey HKEY» ones.
There's a few exceptions though, the volume up/down and mute buttons does not generate events that are visible from acpi_listen, neither does the back/forward/ play/pause/ stop ones. All of these (except mute) generate X key presses that can be seen with xev, all NoSymbol.
Hopefully this'll work come October...
Tore