testing flight 4 on Laitude D810

[Jonathan Jesse]

On Tuesday 28 February 2006 13:01, Giuseppe Bilotta wrote:
> On Tue, 28 Feb 2006 07:37:38 -0500, Jonathan Jesse wrote:
> > Fn+End should mute, but doesn't work
> > Fn+Up increases the brightness which works correctly
> > Fn+Down decreases the brightness which works correctly
>
> Support for these keys in X is obtained with the "inspiron" keyboard
> model (at least on Inspirons, but Latitudes should work just the
> same).
>
> However, this won't suffice with kernel 2.6 (it does work with kernel
> 2.4), due to the new input model which doesn't by default map some
> scancodes to anything useful. I solved this by creating a fix_keys
> file in my /etc/init.d directory, with the lines
>
> setkeycodes e001 171
> setkeycodes e002 172
> setkeycodes e003 187
> setkeycodes e004 189
>
> and symlinking it from /etc/rcS.d
>
> (I'm running a standard Debian, not Kubuntu.)
>
>
> --
> Giuseppe "Oblomov" Bilotta
>
> "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain
> a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty
> nor safety." Benjamin Franklin

Shouldn't stuff like this just work right out of the box?  That I shouldn't be 
forced to select a laptop type that doesn't match the type of laptop I'm 
using.  Could be confusing for normal people?