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Old 06-24-2013, 07:42 PM   #1
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Will laptop Fn keys work in F18 actual if not working on 'Live USB'?


I've been bouncing around distros a bit lately on my Lenovo ThinkPad T530, dual-boot with Win7. Almost all the Fn keys (such as Fn+F3 for 'lock screen', Fn+F4 for 'sleep', Fn+F5 to disable wireless radios, Fn+F6 to activate the webcam, Fn+F8/F9 for screen brightness) work as is, 'straight out of the box' with no fiddling in Ubuntu 13.04 - though oddly not in Xubuntu 13.04? Most of them work in openSUSE 12.3; less than half work in Mint 15, and so on. I recently booted a live USB of Fedora 18, and basically *none* of these Fn+Fx key combinations worked... which has me seriously questioning whether its worth the effort to even bother try installing on this particular hardware platform... is the 'Live DVD' (or USB) generally a good indicator of whether a particular function or hardware item will work with the distro in question?
 
Old 06-25-2013, 04:04 AM   #2
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In my Fedora 18 installation they're not working. I don’t remember if they were working on live CD and I'm not even missing them at this point. But of course that depends on my needs.
Also note that since I’m not missing it I haven't even tried to make them work, wish I’m sure its possible.
 
Old 06-25-2013, 04:17 PM   #3
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Most of them I'd probably be able to 'live without'... but not having functioning brightness controls (at all) on a laptop is pretty much a no-go for me. I'd imagine it's probably kernel-related, as Mint15 had everything working except brightness (nothing at all changed it, Fn+Fx keys or anything) until a recent kernel update to 3.8.0.25 and now they work as advertised. I suppose since the Fedora 18 install image is a bit older may be why the Fn keys don't work from the Live instance? Eh. Mint 15 is working pretty much all the way around for now; think I'll hang out there for a bit as I'm getting tired of re-installing stuff.
 
Old 07-27-2013, 06:36 AM   #4
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All the function keys on my $300 Gateway laptop are working with Fedora 19. It's a bit of a pain actually, as Gateway does it back-ass-wards: you have to press shift for regualr functions... so when I want to press F3 (voting in Red Shift game) and forget that peculiarity I accidentally shut off WiFi.

I think it's more a function of your desktop environment that distro actually. Works with Gnome3 on all distros I've tried... don't know about KDE or lightweight DE/WMs.
 
Old 07-27-2013, 09:52 AM   #5
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.. but not having functioning brightness controls (at all)(...)
System Settings >> Power Management >> Energy Saving >> Display Brightness
 
Old 07-28-2013, 09:53 AM   #6
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System Settings >> Power Management >> Energy Saving >> Display Brightness
Yeah... when I said not having any brightness control at all... I meant *AT ALL*, including that.
 
  


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