FC1 on a VAIO

[Elton Woo]

On November 11, 2003 05:38 pm, Matheesha Matheesha 
<m.weerasinghe at ntlworld.com> wrote:
> On Sun, 2003-11-09 at 05:04, Z wrote:
> > Works great on mine, except that the Fn key doesn't work. It was a
> > *bitch* to make it work in XP as well.
>
> Are you trying to use the hotkeys for adjusting the volume, brightness
> etc..? In Windows, VAIO laptops require some Sony software installed
> (somethng like Sony hotkey utils or similar) which install some drivers
> that allow these hotkey combinations to work. Correct me if I am wrong
> but unless there is a linux equivalent, I doubt you will get this to
 ... if I may suggest: there is the "lineak" project (search on google
or sourceforge) which is aimed at providing the enablement of the
"Windows" and multimedia keys under linux.

HTH,

Elton ;-) 
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