FC3 and ThinkPad T41 - FINALLY SOLVED

[Alfred Savageau]

On my Dell Inspiron I had a problem with no "Fn" key * Function key
commands were recognized and found after researching the problem this is
solved by editing grub.conf to include "acpi=off" on the line that calls
the kernel.  Once you reboot and make sure APM daemon is running your
"Fn" Key + Sleep key should work.

Fred

On Tue, 2005-02-01 at 22:08 -0500, Chris Ruprecht wrote:
> Harry,
> 
> On Tuesday 01 February 2005 21:49, Harry Hoffman wrote:
> > Chris,
> >
> > Awesome! glad to hear it was solvable. What's the problem you are having
> > with alsamixer?
> 
> The problem is that there is no sound. There is a little trick that some 
> people have suggested: open alsamixer and set Head Phone Jack Sense  and Line 
> Jack Sense to 'Mute'. But that hasn't made a different.
> system-config-soundcard has detected the card but when I click the 'Play Test 
> Sound' button, there is only silence. Volume level is about 3/4 up.
> 
> I read somewhere that this is an unsolved issue in Thinkpads. Another unsolved 
> issue seems to be, that I can't get the machine to sleep. It worked once, 
> only once, but when I woke it up again, it went to shut itself down (clean). 
> This is one area where I must say, Apple did a great job with OS X and their 
> Powerbooks. My powerbook goes to sleep within less than a second and wake up 
> is instant.
> 
> Best regards,
> Chris
> 
> PS. Trying sound from KDE instead of GNOME - same (no) result.
>