[opensuse] Strange Function Key behavior on Toshiba Laptop - screen brightness
Listmates, I am trying to understand where the key bindings are made for laptop function keys and I am running into dead ends. The strangeness is that a fresh 10.3 install on a Toshiba p205d laptop left the laptop unable to manually change the screen brightness with the function key combinations. (FN + F6 -- lowers brightness, FN + F7 -- increase brightness). These key combinations had always worked with other Toshiba laptops, without additional key mapping utilities from 10.2 on. I have googled, joined various Toshiba-Linux user lists, manually searched through the toshutils source code and still I have little understanding on how or where the FN + F# key combinations are created. Adding to the strangeness, I installed another hard drive in the laptop and installed a new copy of 11.0. Magically, the screen brightness key combinations started working. No special key mapping software installed, just as the keys had always worked from 10.2 on. That solves the immediate problem, but my backup drive with the 10.3 install still suffers from the problem. Does anybody have any insight into where these laptop key combinations are hidden or a guess as to why they were non-functional on the last 10.3 install while on the exact same laptop with 11.0 they work as they should? I still have the 10.3 install on a separate disk and I would like to solve that problem if possible to have a working back-up, without the over-bright screen. Thanks for any insight you can offer. -- David C. Rankin, J.D., P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
David,
I believe that HAL handles this from 11.0 onwards and the keymappings
are done through a .fdi file which is placed in the
/usr/share/hal/fdi/information/10freedesktop folder. There is a pretty
good explanation of these fdi files in the following link:-
http://people.freedesktop.org/~hughsient/quirk/
-Anshul
On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 10:17 AM, David C. Rankin
Listmates,
I am trying to understand where the key bindings are made for laptop function keys and I am running into dead ends. The strangeness is that a fresh 10.3 install on a Toshiba p205d laptop left the laptop unable to manually change the screen brightness with the function key combinations. (FN + F6 -- lowers brightness, FN + F7 -- increase brightness). These key combinations had always worked with other Toshiba laptops, without additional key mapping utilities from 10.2 on. I have googled, joined various Toshiba-Linux user lists, manually searched through the toshutils source code and still I have little understanding on how or where the FN + F# key combinations are created.
Adding to the strangeness, I installed another hard drive in the laptop and installed a new copy of 11.0. Magically, the screen brightness key combinations started working. No special key mapping software installed, just as the keys had always worked from 10.2 on. That solves the immediate problem, but my backup drive with the 10.3 install still suffers from the problem.
Does anybody have any insight into where these laptop key combinations are hidden or a guess as to why they were non-functional on the last 10.3 install while on the exact same laptop with 11.0 they work as they should? I still have the 10.3 install on a separate disk and I would like to solve that problem if possible to have a working back-up, without the over-bright screen. Thanks for any insight you can offer.
-- David C. Rankin, J.D., P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
-- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
Anshul Jain wrote:
David, I believe that HAL handles this from 11.0 onwards and the keymappings are done through a .fdi file which is placed in the /usr/share/hal/fdi/information/10freedesktop folder. There is a pretty good explanation of these fdi files in the following link:- http://people.freedesktop.org/~hughsient/quirk/
-Anshul
Thanks Anshul, I'll take a look. I also like the name of the link: "quirk". That comes the closest to explaining it yet. -- David C. Rankin, J.D., P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
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