On Monday 20 November 2006 23:31, bloch@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > There has been support for this when I've been running other > distributions, so I know it can be done. I'm happy to try and do some > of the work myself but am not quite sure where to start. I have a thinkpad, for which there is a special application (tpb - thinkpad buttons), that somehow manages to get the information. Maybe there is something like this for sony notebooks, too. Some other keys provide acpi events (tail -f /var/log/acpid shows them), which can run scripts in /etc/acpi/events. Also you can look with xev whether or not the buttons provide xevents, then you can map them with xmodmap e.g. to F13 or something and use them this way. There is a lot of documentation for thinkpads on http://thinkwiki.org/wiki/ThinkWiki, maybe you can use something of it, too. And "yum search sony" spits out: spicctrl.i386 1.9-5.fc6 extras Matched from: Sony Vaio laptop SPIC control program spicctrl queries and sets a variety of parameters on Sony Vaio laptop computers, including AC Power status, battery status, screen brightness, and bluetooth device power status http://popies.net/sonypi/ On http://popies.net/sonypi/ you also find some information about using special keys. Regards, Till _______________________________________________ Fedora-laptop-list mailing list Fedora-laptop-list@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-laptop-list
