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To: Warren Turkal <wturkal@cbu.edu>
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Subject: Re: [BUG] laptop keyboard, even more info
From: Arne Koewing <ark@gmx.net>
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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