1101 HA EEEPC and Racy: how to use function keys?

[Kerry Blue]

Hi,

I installed Racy on a USB stick and all works fine , except for the menu's under the Function Keys.

Is there a package to activate (at least some of) the F keys?

Kerry Blue

[Kerry Blue]

I used the info from this link:

http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=59590

To enable laptop function keys for volume, brightness, etc., just add this to the bottom of /root/.jwm/jwmrc-personal

Now I can adjust sound, but the icon doesn't change when I increase/decrease sound levels, but more important:

It doesn't work for adjusting screen brightness.

Help would be appreciated immensely, since I have to take this laptop to S. france, where the skies are very bright.....

Kerry Blue

[cthisbear]

Kerry Blue :

Good day mate.

Post your hardware specs...
plus the Puppy racy version.

It helps us to apply a better fix.

And post back....whether it works out or not.
Useful 4 the next bloke...with the same problem.

Cheers,....and hang in there....Chris.

[rokytnji]

Don't know if this will work in Racy but have a look see and maybe try anyways. You can always unistall the pets through Puppy package manager in Racy if they don't work in Racy.

http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?p=237739

Also maybe look for eeepc 1000Ha hotkey linux scripts at

http://support.asus.com/download.aspx?S ... shedid=n/a

or make a .sfs or .pet out of a .deb from

http://packages.debian.org/sid/eeepc-acpi-scripts

or put a request in at

http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/index.php?f=62

Edit; Found this also

http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... 141fd91c84

[Kerry Blue]

First: thank you for your help.

UPDATE: I installed the ACPI Pet for Racy, but it didn't function.

BTW: If I may ask : how do I generally now for sure if software is compatible with e.g. Racy? That's not clear to me if it comes from another source than the included software manager.


Computer
Processor 2x Intel(R) Atom(TM) CPU Z520 @ 1.33GHz
Memory 2064MB (184MB used)
Operating System Unknown distribution
User Name root (root)
Date/Time Tue 22 May 2012 10:51:30 AM CEST
Display
Resolution 1368x768 pixels
OpenGL Renderer Software Rasterizer
X11 Vendor The X.Org Foundation
Multimedia
Audio Adapter HDA-Intel - HDA Intel MID
Input Devices
AT Translated Set 2 keyboard
USB Optical Mouse
SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad
Lid Switch
Sleep Button
Power Button
Video Bus
PC Speaker
Eee PC WMI hotkeys
USB 2.0 Camera
HDA Digital PCBeep
HDA Intel MID Mic
HDA Intel MID Headphone
Printers (CUPS)
CUPS-PDF Default
SCSI Disks
ATA ST9250315AS
ADATA USB Flash Drive


I asked myself: will the fan of the Laptop be supported by Racy? I have no idea how I can check temperature .....

[Kerry Blue]

Another update: I installed Slacko to give it a try and now all menu's under the function keys seem to work.

However: when I close the lid of the laptop, the screen stays black when the computer wakes up and the microphone doesn't work under Skype...
And no: changing Alsamixer settings didn't solve this problem. No sound, whatever I do.

[rokytnji]

http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... 267#563267

for


edited

[Karl Godt]

The temperature drivers mostly don't get recognized by the puppy scripts , reading entries created by depmod command .
rc,sysinit should run depmod at first boot after installation .

The two temperature drivers i know are it87 and coretemp , which create enties somewhrer in /sys directory

Code: Select all

modprobe --first-time coretemp
find /sys -type f -name "temp1_input"
find /sys -type f -name "temp1_input" -exec cat {} \;

36000
37000

For mobile pcs like laptops the thermal driver from the acpi section should create entries in /proc/acpi/* .

Common bootparameter :
acpi=off OR acpi=force (which means strict) OR acpi_enforce_resources=lax