On Fri, 25 Nov 2016 23:27:46 -0200 Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <h...@debian.org> wrote:
> On Fri, 25 Nov 2016, Celejar wrote: > > applications and a few things from backports. I'm currently running > > kernel 4.7.0-0.bpo.1-amd64 from backports. > > Don't. That kernel is very broken. Switch to the latest 4.8 kernel > available from either unstable or kernel.org, or compile the latest > 4.4-longterm kernel from kernel.org. Okay, I'm running 4.8.0.1-amd64 from unstable now. Fn-F1-F4 still don't do anything. > > Some of the function keys work (e.g., Fn-F5/F6 for brightness down/up), > > but some do not (e.g., F1-F3 for volume control, and F4 for suspend > > (suspend works fine out of the box via the Xfce suspend hooks)). Any > > idea how to fix / troubleshoot this? > > run xev, and check if you get X events. If you do, you need to get xfce > to handle these X events somehow (can't help you there). I've done that, but I'll try some more and report back. I always have trouble understanding and parsing xev output. > If you don't see anything in xev, use the stuff in package input-utils > to trace events in the thinkpad-acpi input device, and also on the main > keyboard input device (lsinput, input-events). That might help. > > > I saw this: > > > > http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/How_to_get_special_keys_to_work > > It is somewhat outdated for the newer Lenovo models and Linux kernels, I > believe. > > > But the details are really not explained well - what are these masks, > > what do they mean, and where are they documented? > > You should not need to mess with those. They are either correct > out-of-the-box, or you need a newer kernel anyway for other reasons. > > FWIW, they are documented in Documentation/laptops/thinkpad-acpi.txt in > the kernel source: > > http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/Documentation/laptops/thinkpad-acpi.txt Thanks for the help - when I composed my original message, I was hoping you'd chime in ;) Celejar
