How to make use of additional Keys on Toshiba Notebook ?

Troggy · n00b Joined: 28 May 2003 Posts: 56

Hi there !

I got my Toshiba Satellite 2410 Notebook running well under Linux now and got to the point where my only reason for booting Windows is Photoshop and some games. But I still don't know how to make use of all the additional keys which are accessed through ACPI I think (I am not that much into that matter :roll:

). All howtos I found about installing Linux on my machine were using kernels <2.4.20 without the 2.5 ACPI backport and therefore using APM only or saying something like "additional keys will work yeah whatever". But I'd really like to use the keys (for adjusting LCD brightness, activating TV-Out, etc.)

Could anyone please tell me how to do this ?

Greetz
Troggy
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Podilarius · Posted: Sat Jun 14, 2003 11:22 am Post subject:

Well I recommend you try here

http://acpi.sourceforge.net/

and I suspect you have already been here but I strongly recommend it if you have not

http://www.buzzard.org.uk/toshiba/

as it provides a few very useful utilities for the Toshiba laptop including hotkey support for all those tasty function keys :wink:

Troggy · n00b Joined: 28 May 2003 Posts: 56

I was already on both pages - I have the Toshiba linux utils installed though when I start them they keep throwing error messages at me and do basically nothing. Maybe I forgot something ? I'm using gs-sources 2.4.21rc8 have ACPI in the kernel including toshiba laptop extras, and APM is deactivated.

Greetz
Troggy
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soulwarrior · Guru Joined: 21 Oct 2002 Posts: 331

Myabe you are also interested in:
lineak, http://lineak.sourceforge.net/.
(linux support for Easy Access and Internet Keyboards)

Helps you assign tasks to certain keys on your laptop or internet keyboard.

Troggy · n00b Joined: 28 May 2003 Posts: 56

HAH ! Found a Python script which assigns the key somewhere on the net ! Works at least for the important keys (adjust lcd brightness...) so I'll stick with it until I find something better.

Greetz
Troggy
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Red Nalie · Posted: Mon Jun 16, 2003 5:01 am Post subject:

Troggy · n00b Joined: 28 May 2003 Posts: 56

Hmm......
Hmmmmmm......
Hmmmmmmmmmmm......

OK !

http://memebeam.org/free-software/toshiba_misc/libretto-hotkeys

Greetz
Troggy
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grant.mcdorman · Posted: Mon Jun 16, 2003 11:51 pm Post subject: Toshiba laptop keys

You could also try configuring Xkb to an appropriate layout; the Toshiba Satellite S3000 probably has the same layout. The keyboard name is toshiba_s3000. This means, for a temporary test, you'd do

Troggy · n00b Joined: 28 May 2003 Posts: 56

The Xkbmap does nothing, but thanks anyway. I'm fine for now with the python script.

Greetz
Troggy
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paolo · l33t Joined: 23 Jul 2002 Posts: 768 Location: SBT (AP)

I'm also searching for something to handle the hotkeys.
The best would be having acpid managing /proc/acpi/toshiba/* files.

ByEZz,
Paolo
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grant.mcdorman · Posted: Thu Jul 31, 2003 12:42 am Post subject:

Brooks · n00b Joined: 14 Apr 2003 Posts: 9 Location: Canada

You could always try emerging "acme". It works great on my centrino.

paolo · l33t Joined: 23 Jul 2002 Posts: 768 Location: SBT (AP)

paolo · l33t Joined: 23 Jul 2002 Posts: 768 Location: SBT (AP)

Hi guys,
let's give a try to [ur=http://fnfx.sourceforge.net/l]FnFx[/url] to handle Fn-Keys.

Paolo
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