[Debian-eeepc-devel] Some function keys not working on asus eee 1215T

[Corentin Chary]

On Tue, Sep 20, 2011 at 3:45 PM, Cristian Rigamonti <cri at linux.it> wrote:
> Hi, the key combinations Fn+F7 (turn off LCD light) and Fn+F8 (switch
> LCD/external) don't work on my 1215T.
>
> By pressing Fn+F7, the kernel logs the message:
>
>  keyboard: can't emulate rawmode for keycode 244
>
> By pressing Fn+F8 / F9 / F10 / F11 / F12 nothing happens.
>
> Fn+F5 and Fn+F6 (adjust LCD brightness) work fine
>
> I googled a bit and it seemed to me that support for 1215T was added to
> eeepc_wmi recently, according to:
>
>      http://dev.iksaif.net/issues/157
>      http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/105524/
>
> So I'm not sure if this is a problem in eeepc_wmi or if I have to tweak the acpi
> or eeepc-acpi-scripts configuration. (I'm especially interested into the LCD
> turn off an switch keys)
>
> System info:
>
> - Debian Wheezy (testing)
> - kernel 3.0.0-1-686-pae (modules: eeepc_wmi, asus_wmi)
> - Same result with or without eeepc-acpi-scripts installed
>
> Any suggestions?

To see if a key is supported by the driver, just run "showkey" in a
tty and press the key. If nothing happens the key is not supported,
and more information should be available in dmesg.

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Corentin Chary
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