[ltp] Fn Keys on R40 + FC4

Alex Deucher linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Sun, 7 Aug 2005 15:11:46 -0400


On 8/6/05, leg <tomz@mytum.de> wrote:
>  Hey Alex, thankx a lot for your help. I have not tryied it right now, bu=
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> could you tell me why is it disabled? are there any problems with this? c=
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> i brake something if i do this. the stability of my mashine is pretty ok,=
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> i don't whant that my thinkpad crashes. ;-)=20

It generally works fine, but it usually a good idea to not do things
behind the driver's back.

Alex

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>  On 8/6/05, leg <tomz@mytum.de> wrote:
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>  Hi people
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> I have an Thinkpad R40 with fedora core 4 installed. for the time i had
> FC2, i could use the FN-key with F7 to change the monitor output. Now it
> is not posible. How can i change such thing? where is the config for that=
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>  The radeon driver in 6.8.x disables the bios from messing with the
> chip behind it's back while X is running. You can grab the radeon
> driver from xorg cvs and enable the bioshotkeys option to restore the
> old behavior.
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>  how can i enable FN+F4 for suspend (it is working within KDE with
> klaptop, but if i use fluxbox i just can't suspend)? and how can i
> enable the nextpage and lastpage buttuns?
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> any help whould be great
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> thatnkx a lot
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> leg