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Madhusudan Singh

2005-10-12, 5:59 pm

Hi

I noticed that on my laptop with my current kernel (2.6.13.1 with suspend2
patch) some of Fn keys do not generate acpi events. My laptop is a
Linuxcertified LC2210. Fn+F1 does generate an [SLPB] event
in /var/log/acpid.log but Fn+F4 (monitor switch) does not. I am planning to
use i810switch (btw. this nifty program solves the
X-server-running-and-activating-the-external-display problem for me) and
bind it to Fn+F4.

If I boot up with an external projector connected, and then use Fn+F4, it
works as it should (LCD->LCD+CRT->CRT->LCD), but once the xserver is
running, it seems to be unresponsive.

Thanks.

Madhusudan Singh

2005-10-24, 9:42 am

Chasalin wrote:

> On Wed, 12 Oct 2005 07:49:31 -0400, Madhusudan Singh wrote:
>
>
> I have the same problem on my Asus A2, but after playing on my main
> computer with dual monitor I have this idea that adding an extra monitor
> to your device might solve the problem, at least partially. Haven't
> tested it yet. As far as I figured it out, Fn-<screenswitch> (in your case
> F4) doesn't generate an acpi event at all, but is hard-coded in your
> laptop. I might be mistaken though...


Well, I need to have it recognized as an ACPI event to use i810switch with
it. Is there a way to configure acpi to recognize it as such ?
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