[ltp] Videoswitching with Thinkpad R60e

[Andrew Barr]

On Sat, 2006-09-30 at 19:18 +0200, Julian Hagenauer wrote:
> Hi,
> i own a Thinkpad R60e with Debain etch(testing) running and kernel 2.6.18 on it.
> 
> I cannot get Fn+f7 to get to work, it seems that it is completly ignored. I have loaded ibm_acpi and enabled hotkeys, but with no effect.
> /var/log/acpi shows only keyevents when i Press fn+f2, fn+f3 and fn+f12... The rest get's ignored. i810 switch seems also not work.
> 
> Can anyone help me out?

You should ask on the xorg list about this (assuming you do have an
Intel i9xx video chip). There has been some work on the i810 driver to
support hotkey switching (especially >i915) so maybe it is taking over
from the BIOS in some regard.

Andrew

> Thanks,
> Julian