tweaking new dell laptop: "Fn" keys and system beep

[Matt Price]

On Wed, Jun 14, 2006 at 07:06:28PM -0400, Jaime Davila wrote:
> matt.price at utoronto.ca wrote:
> >Quoting John DeCarlo <johndecarlo at gmail.com>:
> >
> >>On 6/14/06, matt.price at utoronto.ca <matt.price at utoronto.ca> wrote:
> >>>However what I really wnat to do is to enable
> >>>the "Standby" button ("FN"+Esc),.  In fact most of the blue "Fn" keys
> >>>don't
> >>>currently do anything -- this includes the "battery", "CRT/LCD" and
> >>>number-pad
> >>>keys.  The screen brightness controls DO work, though, as do the volume
> >>>controls.
> >>>
> >>matt,
> >>
> >>I haven't followed the latest developments, but I have used the package
> >>"lineakd" for the extra Dell keys.  It is in Ubuntu "universe" repository.
> >>
> >
> >THanks John.  I think that lineakd only works with keys that generate 
> >keystroke
> >events, which (if I'm correct) the most important "Fn" keys don't seem to 
> >do. Instead, the latter create acpi events, which are monitored and 
> >intercepted by
> >acpid.  What I want to do is to find out what happens to the "standby"
> >(="suspend-to-ram") command after I press the standby key.  It seems that 
> >it's
> >not being received, since when I hit "echo "men" > /sys/power/state" I can 
> >in
> >fact make the computer suspend to ram. 
> 
> Have you looked at /var/log/acpid ?
> 
> 
Hi Haime,

actually I missed your first email as I couldn't get mutt working on
htel aptop and my webmail doesn't have a thread view (gnashing of
teeth...).  I have now looked at /var/log/acpid and am geting much
closer -- will explain in thenext email.

Matt

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