Fn keys won't work Sony VAIO Vgn-sz430n

redrazor39 · July 16, 2008, 4:55am

They work just fine in ubuntu, though.

I don’t know what to do. Could anyone give any suggestions? I’m running openSUSE 11 (well, I WAS, but I went back to ubuntu because it was so annoying to lack this control, but if someone gives me a command or something that works then I’d be more than more than happy to go back to OS 11. OS 11 ROCKS! Please help! I love openSUSE!

buckesfeld · July 16, 2008, 7:59am

redrazor39,

try something like keytouch or lineak to make them work. IF you are absolutely sure you selected the right keyboard layout upon installation/configuration.

Uwe

redrazor39 · July 16, 2008, 4:41pm

where can I get those? Packman repo? 1-click install?

buckesfeld · July 17, 2008, 8:26pm

On 07/16/2008 redrazor39 wrote:
> where can I get those? Packman repo? 1-click install?

Packman

Uwe

redrazor39 · July 18, 2008, 7:55pm

keytouch doesn’t recognize my keyboard

According to YaST hardware information, I have an AT Translated Set 2 Keyboard. Do you know of something that supports that?

buckesfeld · July 18, 2008, 8:39pm

On 07/18/2008 redrazor39 wrote:
> According to YaST hardware information, I have an AT Translated Set 2
> Keyboard. Do you know of something that supports that?

I’d play around with sax2. Else try lineak. The webpage also has a nice tutorial on how to find out which keystroke issues which signal.

Uwe

redrazor39 · July 18, 2008, 9:58pm

sax2 is the settings from YaST admin settings right? The hardware section? I’ll try that as soon as I get back on my openSUSE box

redrazor39 · July 20, 2008, 5:25am

sax2 doesn’t do anything for Fn Keys

This is the top reason telling me to ditch openSUSE, but I REALLY don’t want to

buckesfeld · July 20, 2008, 12:04pm

On 07/20/2008 redrazor39 wrote:
> sax2 doesn’t do anything for Fn Keys

Not directly, but you could try a different keyboard there.

Uwe

redrazor39 · July 20, 2008, 6:09pm

So I just pick and choose until a keyboard type works? Wouldn’t that take forever?

sigh if only my keyboard was supported out of the box

collinm · July 20, 2008, 7:50pm

same thing for my… that worked with 10.3…

send a bug report to https://bugzilla.novell.com

buckesfeld · July 21, 2008, 11:17am

On 07/20/2008 redrazor39 wrote:
> So I just pick and choose until a keyboard type works? Wouldn’t that
> take forever?

Some are obviously not suitable, that should narrow it down.
As for Fn keys, playing with BIOS versions could also help. With my Samsung Q45, newer BIOS versions break Fn key functions in Linux.

Good luck.

Uwe

kastorff · July 21, 2008, 3:11pm

Thread moved to Laptop
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