Install report Panasonic Let's Note R3

[Jan Morén]

fre 2004-12-31 klockan 01:46 -0500 skrev ming0:
> I did use your version of the touchpad config, and have found a few odd
> things...
> 
> if I put my finger in the very bottom of the circle, I can control the
> track position slider in XMMS, but I can't use it to scroll
> horizontally or vertically in any normal applications--so I think that
> this pad has the capability, but that I'm just not using it right? I
> tried hovering the cursor over scroll bars and scrolling (and I also
> tried clicking in a browser window that was scrollable, but had no luck
> using the bottom (or sides or top) of the touchpad.

The bottom thing is separate; I'm honestly not sure what that maps to,
but it also works (kind of badly) as back and forward in Firefox as
well. As my example is set up, you should be able to scroll up and down
by starting at the far right corner and dragging your finger around
clockwise or counterclockwise, and that should work pretty much
everywhere.

> also, I'm trying to get the fn acpi stuff going, and have modprobed the
> pcc_acpi module and have the script running in a terminal window. when I
> click fn+f1, I see words "backlight dc 163" in the top corner--I can't
> get the number to change by clicking fn+f1 or fn+f2. I can also see
> "mute off" when I press fn+f4, but no matter how many times I press the
> button I can't get it to mute. the same thing is happening w/ the
> volume--it tells me the current volume, but I can't change it. Do you
> know what I am doing wrong? I ran the script as sudo, so I don't
> imagine that it's a privelages thing...

Not really sure what you try to do. I have a bit of info on the wiki on
making it work on these machines (or I had; not sure if it survived the
move). Don't forget that the R1 and R3 use different chipsets, so
there's no guarantee that things will work exactly the same. Though,
since you are getting events reported, it should just be a matter of
tweaking scripts to make it work.

I'm attaching the scripts I have. Note that I am running with the
"special" kernel and scripts available for using acpi from
http://www.srcf.ucam.org/~mjg59/laptops/

What you want to do (assuming it will work the same on these machines)
is to first update to the kernel, acpi scripts and helper apps available
in that repo, the replace relevant scripts with the ones I have. The
"hotkey" event script and the "hotkey.sh" script should change both
volume and brightness like you want.

Note two things: first, with the latest updates in the repo above, I no
longer need any special hacks for waking up from suspend; I use the
normal scripts for that nowadays. Second, I map the powerbutton to
sleep, not suspend, as I have little interest in suspend-to-disk and
haven't bothered to set it up. 

If you have more questions, just ask! These machines are waaayy too neat
not to get running well.


-- 
Trust the Computer. The Computer is your friend.
 
Tel. (Japan) 090-3622 8920            Dr. Jan Morén (mr)
                                      Dept. of Cognitive Science
http://lucs.lu.se/people/jan.moren    Lund, Sweden
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# /etc/acpi/events/hotkey
# This script handles hotkey events on Panasonic notebooks

event=HKEY\ 00000080\ 000000(8[1-689]|0[7a])
action=/etc/acpi/hotkey.sh %e

# end
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# /etc/acpi/events/powerbtn
# This is called when the user presses the power button and calls
# /etc/acpi/powerbtn.sh for further processing.

# Optionally you can specify the placeholder %e. It will pass
# through the whole kernel event message to the program you've
# specified.

# We need to react on "button power.*" and "button/power.*" because
# of kernel changes.

event=button[ /]power
#action=/etc/acpi/susp.sh
action=/etc/acpi/sleep.sh
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