I have a HP 430 Notebook PC. I have installed OpenSUSE 12.1 with KDE.
The problem is that my Fn keys work only sometimes. Most of time they don’t work at all.
I have installed Windows 7 Ultimate and with It Fn keys works always.
Any idea?
On 07/18/2012 12:06 AM, robertohanus wrote:
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> I have a HP 430 Notebook PC. I have installed OpenSUSE 12.1 with KDE.
>
> The problem is that my Fn keys work only sometimes. Most of time they
> don’t work at all.
>
> I have installed Windows 7 Ultimate and with It Fn keys works always.
Blame Microsoft. They invented the Windows Management Interface (wmi) protocol
that is used to interpret those Fn keys. Before that, each of the Fn keys
generated an actual keystroke sequence. Now, no keystrokes are generated, and
the interpretation of the keys are handled by a wmi routine. For HP, the code is
hp-wmi. With lsmod, make certain that the module is loaded. If it is, and things
still don’t work, then the code is incomplete for your model.
Note, the developer for that module is not even an openSUSE user. Any bugs
and.or missing code will need to be posted at bugzilla.kernel.org.