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  1. Bug #198197
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Comment 11 for bug 198197

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Tore Anderson (toreanderson) wrote :

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