'Fn key' and ACPI on dell laptops

[Alexander Volovics]

On Mon, Aug 18, 2003 at 04:30:22PM -0400, Michael K. Johnson wrote:

> On Mon, Aug 18, 2003 at 04:09:28PM -0400, Alan Cox wrote:
> > > > Under ACPI this is no longer possible.
> > > > Why does using ACPI disable this functionality?

> > > Because enabling ACPI disables APM, and ACPI isn't specified in
> > > a way that allows that.
 
> > Do you have the ACPI button drivers loaded ?
 
> Sorry, I should have been clearer in my answer...
 
> APM bios screens just can't come up with ACPI because ACPI is
> specified that the OS takes care of it all.

> In addition, 2.4 ACPI just doesn't do suspend to disk, regardless
> of whether acpid is informed of button presses...

I had never thought about it, but you mean that to allow the bios setup
screens to come up during an X session something like 'suspend to memory'
had to be invoked first. 

Alexander