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I am having a problem with the FN keys on a HP Probook 4320s and using archbang (arch+openbox).
When I tried an ubuntu live cd the brightness, volume etc, worked just fine.
Using xev I got this output while hitting the keys
Quote:
KeyRelease event, serial 40, synthetic NO, window 0x1800001,
root 0x152, subw 0x0, time 1722303, (-375,141), root717,436),
state 0x0, keycode 233 (keysym 0x1008ff02, XF86MonBrightnessUp), same_screen YES,
XLookupString gives 0 bytes:
XFilterEvent returns: False
Also when I echo a value in /sys/class/backlight/acpi_video0/brightness the brightness changes but still fn keys not working.
Can anyone help me with this?.
check you kernelconfiguration. In the section "Device Drivers"->"x86 Platform Specific Drivers" you will find modules for various laptops, select the one for your's and recompile the kernel. These modules are in most cases necessary in order to get laptopspecific hardware to work like the fn-keys.
Maybe the modules is already there on your system, then you may also check the kernelconfiguration and look what's the name of the module. If it's there, try to load it with modprobe.
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