I ran xev and tested the kbdillumup and kbdillumdown hotkeys with the cursor in the white box that appears, with no result (nothing appears/changes in terminal). To confirm the 'white box' was working I tried known-working hotkeys (eg volume) and they gave the expected result in terminal. Just to clarify, I am running xfce so the command "killall gnome-settings-daemon" returned the message "no process found". I've got 64 bit 11.10 xubuntu installed on the laptop. $ uname -a Linux xxxxxx-laptop 3.0.0-12-generic #20-Ubuntu SMP Fri Oct 7 14:56:25 UTC 2011 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux Thanks, Ian On 18 October 2011 15:48, Martin Pitt <martin.pitt@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hello Ian, > > Ian Coleman [2011-10-17 15:10 +1100]: >> 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. > > Thanks for the data. I'll commit this to udev as soon as I get write > permissions back. > >> 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. > > I can't test these myself as I don't have an illuminated keyboard, but > gnome-settings-daemon's "media-keys" plugin has code to react to > these: > > http://git.gnome.org/browse/gnome-settings-daemon/tree/plugins/media-keys/gsd-media-keys-manager.c#n1549 > > Can you please ensure that X.org actually knows about these? Please > run "killall gnome-settings-daemon", then "xev", move the pointer into > the white window and press Fn+F7/F8. Do you see keyboard events for > XF86KbdBrightnessUp/XF86KbdBrightnessDown in the terminal? > > Martin > -- > Martin Pitt | http://www.piware.de > Ubuntu Developer (www.ubuntu.com) | Debian Developer (www.debian.org) > -- 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
