I don't know if this has anything to do with the ibm-acpi package, but here goes... On the E430, by default you must hold the Fn key in order to use F1-F12. Without holding Fn, these keys are volume, brightness, etc. In the BIOS there is a setting to switch this so that it operates the way that normal computers do. This is called "legacy mode". However, for me and for other people who use Linux, regardless of whether legacy mode is activated in the BIOS, the behavior seems to randomly flip back and forth. In other words, sometimes F2 does F2 and sometimes it changes volume, and you never know whether the Fn key needs to be pressed at the given moment. This doesn't seem to happen on Windows (according to one person anyway). Some people think the behavior correlates with sleep mode. On Windows, holding the Fn key for a few seconds pops up a dialog allowing to toggle legacy mode, if the Lenovo drivers are installed. On Linux, holding Fn gives this error in syslog: Oct 31 20:12:18 psi kernel: [39697.757940] thinkpad_acpi: unknown possible thermal alarm or keyboard event received Oct 31 20:12:18 psi kernel: [39697.757946] thinkpad_acpi: unhandled HKEY event 0x6060 Oct 31 20:12:18 psi kernel: [39697.757949] thinkpad_acpi: please report the conditions when this event happened to ibm-acpi-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx ... and gives this in acpi_listen: ibm/hotkey LEN0068:00 00000080 00006060 A fix for the Fn key legacy behavior would be greatly appreciated. Currently my workaround is to not use the function keys for anything. - Dan ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Everyone hates slow websites. So do we. Make your web apps faster with AppDynamics Download AppDynamics Lite for free today: http://p.sf.net/sfu/appdyn_sfd2d_oct _______________________________________________ ibm-acpi-devel mailing list ibm-acpi-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ibm-acpi-devel
