I can't speak to the specific model but laptops usually have a peripheral controller that aggregates these control functions. Sort of a keyboard controller++. You may need to dig into this interface to get those buttons working.
Trivia: The controller typically runs even when the laptop is turned off. On Thu, 2011-04-21 at 23:13 -0600, Craig McLean wrote: > I have a Toshiba Tecra M5 laptop that I’ve put Linux on. > > > > It has two buttons that aren’t part of the keyboard, one has an “i” on > it and the other one is labelled to indicate that it can switch > between the internal and external display. In Windows the “i” key > brought up some help, and the other key worked as advertised. You did > need to install a Toshiba package to make them work. These buttons > aren’t working in Ubuntu Desktop 10.10 32bit. Is there a package I > need to install? Or is there a mapping file somewhere I need to edit > to attach an action to these buttons? > > > > Interestingly the Fn-Option key combinations on the keyboard work. > > > > For instance hitting “Fn-F2” hibernates, and “Fn-F7” or “Fn-F8” > brightens and dims the screen. > > > > It is just the two separate feature buttons that don’t work. > > > > Craig. > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > clug-talk mailing list > clug-talk@clug.ca > http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca > Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) > **Please remove these lines when replying _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list clug-talk@clug.ca http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
