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Date:      Fri, 28 Jul 2006 21:03:11 +0200
From:      Ulrich Spoerlein <uspoerlein@gmail.com>
To:        deischen@freebsd.org
Cc:        freebsd-acpi@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Fn keys on Dell E1405
Message-ID:  <20060728190311.GA1057@roadrunner.informatik.uni-wuerzburg.de>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.64.0607250953000.19799@sea.ntplx.net>
References:  <Pine.GSO.4.64.0607250953000.19799@sea.ntplx.net>

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Daniel Eischen wrote:
> Greetings and salutations,
> 
> Is there anything I can do to get Fn key functionality on
> my Dell E1405 notebook?  I've seen the patches for video
> switching and will try them at some point, but it's not
> as important to me as getting suspend/resume and wireless
> radio on/off.  Also getting the CD/DVD drive to eject would
> be nice.

On my Inspiron 8600, nearly all Fn keys produce plain key scancodes,
that you can assign to specific commands in X.

I have the following keycodes in .xmodmaprc

keycode 164 = XF86AudioStop
keycode 137 = XF86Eject
keycode 162 = XF86AudioPause
keycode 160 = XF86AudioStop
keycode 153 = XF86AudioNext
keycode 144 = XF86AudioPrev
keycode 174 = XF86AudioLowerVolume
keycode 176 = XF86AudioRaiseVolume
keycode 160 = XF86AudioMute

Please check those values with xev(1). You would then have to assign
specific commands to these keys with the help of your window manager.

Funny side note: The brightness up/down combo does NOT generate any kind
of keycode ... BUT when I turn the brightness up or down while xpdf(1)
has the focus, xpdf(1) will enter an infinite refresh loop and needs to
be killed. Very strange ....

Ulrich Spoerlein
-- 
A: Yes.
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