Toshiba Front Operation Panel/Illumination Keys not working

solomonsunder · 2014-04-21 11:10:29

I am unable to toggle wireless on/off, mute/unmute, play/pause using Front operation panel LED keys on my Toshiba Qosmio F60. Currently I need to enable WiFi/Bluetooth from within Windows for it to work. Fn+F8 toggle works as soft block/unblock only if I have already enabled WiFi under Windows. Any ideas as how this can be done? The only LED Touch button that works under Debian/Ubuntu/Fedora is the Volume Up/Down button. Touchpad on/off toggle does not work with physical button above the touchpad or Fn+F9 either. Other Fn+ keys work eg., Fn+Esc for mute/unmute, Fn+F1 for lock etc.

Interestingly even when the WiFi is turned off from within Windows on booting Arch with a pen-drive wifi-menu command detects all surrounding wireless networks properly for the first time. Even rfkill shows as hardware unblocked. But once a network is selected it fails and the subsequent rfkill commands show as hardware blocked.

These problems seems related to Direct App Launch Button which probably can be solved in Linux by quickstart http://quickstart.sourceforge.net/
I had raised a thread in Ubuntu, Debian, Red Hat forums as well
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2150307
http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=108921
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1074504
https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=72711

The buttons look like this http://www.manualslib.com/manual/180150 … 159#manual

Last edited by solomonsunder (2014-04-21 11:26:16)

clfarron4 · 2014-04-21 11:58:53

If I'm not mistaken, some panels like those are software-mapped in Windows, not hardware mapped. This means you'll actually have to work out what Linux reads them as, and then map them.

This should help: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Ex … board_Keys

And maybe this: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Ke … on_in_Xorg

Last edited by clfarron4 (2014-04-21 11:59:18)

solomonsunder · 2014-04-22 13:10:13

I get the below output when I run showkey -k

Fn+1 (Zoom In)
keycode 419 press
keycode 419 release

Fn+2 (Zoom out)
keycode 418 press
keycode 418 release

Fn+Space (Zoom)
keycode 420 press
keycode 420 release

Fn+F8 (Wireless Toggle)
keycode 238 press
keycode 238 release

Fn+F9 (Touchpad Toggle)
keycode 530 press
keycode 530 press

These are soft keys mentioned here http://www.manualslib.com/manual/180150 … 134#manual

The front panel buttons and the small physical touchpad toggle button above the touchpad do not generate any codes. The Fn+F8 is a multi toggle in Windows after wireless is turned on through the front panel button (first press WiFi on, second press Bluetooth on, third press both WiFI, Bluetooth on, fourth press both off). Also there is no ouput for scancodes when I run showkey -s or xev. Am I missing anything?

Last edited by solomonsunder (2014-04-22 13:22:22)

clfarron4 · 2014-04-22 15:38:39

I'll admit that I've not done much keymapping, but if you aren't getting codes from certain keys (especially special ones like panels), then you may be out of luck, unless there is a driver of some sort for them.

Arch Linux

#1 2014-04-21 11:10:29

Toshiba Front Operation Panel/Illumination Keys not working

#2 2014-04-21 11:58:53

Re: Toshiba Front Operation Panel/Illumination Keys not working

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#4 2014-04-22 15:38:39

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