> Date: Fri, 19 Nov 1999 22:28:35 +0100
> From: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
>
> This patch adds blank console keyboard combination. This is usefull if
>
>I gotta ask; are there really that many notebooks that don't have a
>built-in way of doing this already? (On the Vaio 505, it's Fn-D,
>although it's one of the Fn- combinations that's not printed on the
>keybaord.)
The Fn-D key combination doesn't work on the newer VAIO 505 notebooks,
such as my PCG-N505VE. It only works in Windows. The only user-mode screen
blanking program I'm aware of is the KDE DPMS stuff.
>And you can do this via a user-mode command, right; so is it really that
>important to put this into the kernel's keyboard driver?
Perhaps it is -- can anyone tell me how the Fn+<key> combinations are
reported to the OS? I tried showkey but it doesn't display anything for
these combinations. (I admit I don't know the Linux keyboard driver
though, so maybe I'm just confused.)
Perhaps a kernel module could trap the special function key combinations
and export the information to a daemon.
I don't care so much about display blanking -- right now I have no LCD
brightness or sound volume control, and the system idle doesn't work
either. Suspend-to-RAM works, but not suspend-to-disk (which is a BIOS
call, unlike most of the other non-functional features).
Dave
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