IBM T60 Function keys

Joe Burgess joemburgess at gmail.com
Mon Sep 22 17:07:21 UTC 2008


Do you have the thinkpad acpi kernel module installed??

--Joe

Joris Dobbelsteen wrote:
> Dear,
> 
> I have currently put Ubuntu 8.04 LTS on my IBM T60 laptop and run into a 
> few little annoyances. One of these is that the function keys work 
> rather strangely (or not, but that I can handle).
> 
> Display brightness control
> * Making the screen brighter works, BUT does not update software state. 
> It also shows no on-screen display.
> * Lowering brightness works and updates state...
> Once brightness is lowered, pressing it will move to the lowest possible 
> brightness. Its not gradually, since making it brighter does not update 
> the software state.
> How can I diagnose/fix this?
> 
> For volume control I have three buttons:
> * Volume mute, works OK.
> * Volume lowering works, but does NOT unmute.
> * Volume up works as expected.
> How do I fix volume lowering to actually unmute?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> - Joris
> 

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