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magester1

New Member

Registered: 2012-07-02

Posts: 6

Keycodes on eeePC

Alright, so I found out about #! around 2 months ago and never had the chance to try it out.
This last weekend, I was gifted a new eeepc 1001PXD and thought that it was the perfect excuse to install it.

Everything went as expected, with that I don't mean fine or horribly wrong... everything seemed to work OK right out-of-the-box like the touchpad and two-finger scrolling, etc.
Wireless adapter didn't work but thanks to all the help on this forums I managed to correct that.

Right now, my biggest issue is some of the special keys (Fn+Fx). I can get to work the brightness, the pad and most stuff. The only ones that do not work and I do care about are the volume controls (up,down,mute).
I've been searching through google and this forums a lot (if I missed the solution I apologize in advance). People were talking about binding XF86Audio* keys and the eeepc-acpi-scripts, unfortunately, that didn't work for me.

So I tried getting the keycode with xev... it appears that it doesn't recognize the keys or something, it just doesn't react when I hit Fn+F10-12.

I then found this on google:
[url]http://www.fail2fail.com/index.php?archives/2-English.html&serendipity[lang_selected]=en[/url]
none of what it mentioned worked for me, showkey -s didn't respond to those. I even downloaded the tool evtest and tried it out on all 8 events in /dev/input.

I guess if I could find out the keycode for those keys it'd be pretty easy binding them to something.
I haven't really tried loading another Linux/Debian OS on the netbook, only the win7 starter that came with it, and there the keys do work.

I really hope you guys can help me 'cause I'm really enjoying #! so far (much more than Ubuntu on my desktop PC).

FreQ

Member

From: France

Registered: 2012-07-03

Posts: 18

Re: Keycodes on eeePC

Hi mate, try installing this, it is in both stable and testing repos and should do the trick

This package adds support to the special features of Asus Eee PC series of laptops. These include sleep (suspend) and hotkeys such as wireless, brightness, mute, volume, video output toggle and the 'soft' keys available in some models.

sudo apt-get install eeepc-acpi-scripts

Reboot after install and see if it worked
Just remove the package if for some reason it wasn't compatible with your eeepc model

magester1

New Member

Registered: 2012-07-02

Posts: 6

Re: Keycodes on eeePC

Unfortunately, I had already tried that, and it didn't work.
The acpid process was running in the background, I wanted to check the events file but apparently it's no longer in use...

ejungle

New Member

Registered: 2012-11-05

Posts: 1

Re: Keycodes on eeePC

I have the identical prolem. I followed the suggestion but unfortunately I was unlucky. Crunchbang seems not to recognize my hotkeys (which are recognized by windows 7). For example, if I do

$ acpi_listen

and I start to type the hotekys I will get in response only

button/sleep SBTN 00000080 00000000

by typing Fn+F1. The other hotkeys do not produce any output.

I really would like to solve this issue since I travel often and the netbook is a good reource when I a on the airplane and I need to disable the wireless (Fn+F2) before boarding.

Any help would be really appreciated.