Bug 526767

+1, on my Lenovo 3000 N500, with Fedora 12. (The first version I've used on the new laptop; I assume the keys would have similarly failed to work under previous releases.)

Frustratingly, as the reporter said, unlike ALL of the other Fn-key combinations (volume, media control, numpad, Home, End, ...), pressing Fn-F11 or Fn-F12 does not seem to produce a visible reaction anywhere in the system. 'lshal -m' registers nothing, 'xinput test {keyboard ID}' fails to report, and so on.

(Er, in my previous comment I should of course have written Fn-F10 and Fn-F11, instead.)

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Aha! I'd all but forgotten about this, and turns out there's good news.

I don't even know when this changed, but I just experimentally tried using the brightness controls on my Lenovo keyboard (Fn-F10 and Fn-F11), and they're now functional! The fix must have slipped in with an update since Fedora 12 was first released. (That was the last time I tried using the Fn-key brightness controls.)

Whatever and whenever things changed, it appears this problem is now fixed. I didn't see any activity from 'xinput test N' for any of the keyboard input devices N, so it doesn't look like the keypresses make it through to the X server, but I did get the following output from 'lshal -m':

[---@---]~% lshal -m

Start monitoring devicelist:
-------------------------------------------------
16:55:19.438: computer_logicaldev_input_0 condition ButtonPressed = brightness-down
16:55:20.031: computer_logicaldev_input_0 condition ButtonPressed = brightness-down
16:55:20.595: computer_logicaldev_input_0 condition ButtonPressed = brightness-up
16:55:20.806: computer_logicaldev_input_0 condition ButtonPressed = brightness-up


Hopefully, the original reporter will also find that brightness controls are now functional, and this bug can be closed. In the absence of any further update, I'm content to let BugZapper reap it. Team WORKSFORME(...NOW).

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