On Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 03:10:45PM +1100, Ian Coleman wrote: > I am trying to get the Fn+F7 and Fn+F8 keys working on my Samsung > laptop, model 90X3A. These map to 'keyboard illumination down' and > 'keyboard illumination up', which sets the brightness of the LEDs > behind the keyboard. > > I have started a thread here > http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1751914 about this issue > > I have managed to get the scan code (0x96 and 0x97) to respond with > the correct key code (kbdillumup and kbdillumdown) when I run > /lib/udev/keymap -i input/event4 > > However the keyboard backlight level still does not change when these > buttons are pressed. Are you using the proper kernel driver for this laptop (samsung-laptop) that provides the ability to change the backlight levels? If not, the keys themselves are not going to do anything on their own, sorry. greg k-h -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-hotplug" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
