Hello. The current sony-laptop driver supports some, but not all of the Sony VAIO VPC-Z23A4R special keys. Please improve it, I am ready to test patches! So here is what the special keys produce on /proc/acpi/event (first line = press, second line = release): Fn-F1 (disable/enable touchpad): sony/hotkey SNC 00000001 0000000c sony/hotkey SNC 00000001 0000003b no effect, no keycodes Fn-F2, Fn-F3, fn-F4 (mute, volume up, volume down): produce nothing, work as expected Fn-F5 (brightness down): sony/hotkey SNC 00000001 00000010 sony/hotkey SNC 00000001 0000003b works as expected in GNOME 3.4 Fn-F6 (brightness up): sony/hotkey SNC 00000001 00000011 sony/hotkey SNC 00000001 0000003b works as expected in GNOME 3.4 Fn-F7 (display switch): sony/hotkey SNC 00000001 00000012 sony/hotkey SNC 00000001 0000003b works as expected Fn-F8: unused, produces nothing Fn-F9 (zoom out): sony/hotkey SNC 00000001 00000014 sony/hotkey SNC 00000001 0000003b no effect, no keycodes Fn-F10 (zoom in): sony/hotkey SNC 00000001 00000015 sony/hotkey SNC 00000001 0000003b no effect, no keycodes Fn-F11: unused, produces nothing Fn-F12 (suspend): sony/hotkey SNC 00000001 00000017 sony/hotkey SNC 00000001 0000003b works as expected ASSIST: sony/hotkey SNC 00000001 00000028 sony/hotkey SNC 00000001 00000038 produces the Help keycode WEB: no output, produces the HomePage keycode VAIO: sony/hotkey SNC 00000001 00000049 sony/hotkey SNC 00000001 00000038 no effect, no keycodes -- Alexander E. Patrakov -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe platform-driver-x86" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html