[ltp] "Fn" keys in Linux

[Matt Graham]

On Tuesday 20 April 2004 18:21, after a long battle with technology, 
Charles E Taylor IV wrote:
> On Tue, 20 Apr 2004 18:02:05 -0400
> James Knott <james.knott@rogers.com> wrote:
> > Is there any way to get the "Fn" keys, such as F7 for dispay
> > switching to work in Linux?  I'm running KDE & SuSE 9.0.
> They do work on my Yhinkpads (570E, 240, 770Z).  You might need to be
> more specific.  What model Thinkpad?  APM or ACPI?

Yes, post the model of Thinkpad you're using.  If you have a Thinkpad 
with a Rage128 video card, you need to have the line
   Option "Display" "BIOS"
in the Device section of your /etc/X11/XF86Config for Fn-F7 to work 
properly.  I don't know what the right XF86COnfig option is for Radeon 
video cards.

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