Function Keys Not Working

[Trond Danielsen]

On 5/25/06, Lovell Mcilwain <lovell.mcilwain at gmail.com> wrote:
> Has anyone been able to figure out a way to bypass the laptop function
> keys not working?  I want to be able to send my laptop vga signal to my
> monitor but using fn + f8 doesn't seem to work (as well as a bunch of
> the other function keys).
>
> When I look in my messages log I only have the following:
>
> May 25 14:38:51 Whistler kernel: video bus notify
>

On my Asus laptop I have to use acpi_listen to catch the events
generated by the fn-x keys. Ubuntu includes acpi scripts that handles
this, but unfortuately FC doesn't :(. But this might not solve your
problem

>
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Trond Danielsen