FC4 on Laptop, does it work??, Partly.

[Dan]

On gnome, Desktop->Preferences->Keyboard Shortcuts is very helpful for 
defining these sorts of keys to open email, control volume and 
such...but as it appears you're using KDE I don't have experience with 
that so I couldn't tell you where to find an equivalent.

Tomas Larsson wrote:

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>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: fedora-list-bounces at redhat.com 
>>[mailto:fedora-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Tomas Larsson
>>Sent: Monday, February 20, 2006 8:25 PM
>>To: 'For users of Fedora Core releases'
>>Subject: RE: FC4 on Laptop, does it work??, Partly.
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>>>-----Original Message-----
>>>From: fedora-list-bounces at redhat.com
>>>[mailto:fedora-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Tony Dietrich
>>>Sent: Monday, February 20, 2006 7:11 PM
>>>To: For users of Fedora Core releases
>>>Subject: Re: FC4 on Laptop, does it work??, Partly.
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>>>On Monday 20 February 2006 11:11, Tomas Larsson wrote:
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>>>>Wiped XP of the disk and installed FC4.
>>>>Laptop is a Compaq Presario 2822EA.
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>>>>First attempt faild, anaconda bailed ot with a kilometer of
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>>>errors, it
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>>>>appeared that repartion the disk failed, although it was
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>>>supposed to
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>>>>delete all partitions.
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>>>>Second attempt worked without any problems, apart from not
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>>>be able to
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>>>>identify the screen.
>>>>The ATI chipset was identified as a ATI 7500, which I
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>>>assume is correct.
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>>>>Changed later to generic LCD 1024*768, without any problems.
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>>>>Now, the current problems I have is to make the "Quick
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>>>Launch" and the
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>>>>other buttoms such as volume etc. to work.
>>>>Having read various othters experiences, but I have not
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>>>found any solution.
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>>>>I assume that ther must be a driver or something similar to
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>>>have them
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>>>>operational.
>>>>But where do I find it?
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>>>>With best regards
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>>>>Tomas Larsson
>>>>Sweden
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>>>>Verus Amicus Est Tamquam Alter Idem
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>>>On KDE (never use Gnome, personal preference)
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>>>Control Center>Regional and Accessibility>Keyboard layouts 
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>>Select the 
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>>>Compaq Laptop keyboard.
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>>Does not exist, only Compaq standard keybords and internet Keyboards.
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>>With best regards
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>>Tomas Larsson
>>Sweden
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>To quick, found it as "LapTop keyboard Compaq", not "Compaq laptop keyboard"
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>Got the volume working now, don't know about the Fn keys yet, The others,
>"i", "e-mail", "search" and the "mute" do not work.
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