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#1 2016-05-21 18:28:37

engieop
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Installing Arch on Thinkpad W530

I am installing Arch Linux on a Thinkpad W530, using the LiveCD.
When I boot from the LiveCD, at the Syslinux bootloader screen, my hardware buttons (volume/mute) and Fn-keys work. I am able to control the brightness.
But once I boot into Arch, they stop working. I checked lsmod and have thinkpad_acpi running.
Is this just a problem because I am running LiveCD and haven't installed Arch yet?

I have installed Debian and Ubuntu, and almost everything works out of the box. Including when running their LiveCD.

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#2 2016-05-21 18:55:23

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Re: Installing Arch on Thinkpad W530

If you want them to work in the terminal you may need some sort of module, but I've never bothered.  They'll work in X just fine if you set them up.


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#3 2016-05-21 20:08:23

engieop
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Re: Installing Arch on Thinkpad W530

Trilby wrote:

If you want them to work in the terminal you may need some sort of module, but I've never bothered.  They'll work in X just fine if you set them up.

Hi, are you also running on the W530?
So I would need to install Arch and then Xorg?

Also, what allows a distribution like Ubuntu to work out of the box with the Fn-keys? Is it gnome?

I was reading this wiki and it says I just need the thinkpad_acpi module for the keys I want to use.

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#4 2016-05-21 21:32:39

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Re: Installing Arch on Thinkpad W530

I don't have a W530, but I have (and have had) many IBM and Lenovo thinkpads.  I've never bothered with the thinkpad_acpi and all my keys work just fine.  The volume and media keys generate events detected by the XServer, so in order for them to do anything X needs to be running (and those keysyms need to be bound).  The major DEs all bind these keysyms, and most WMs make it easy to do so as well.

The thinkpad_acpi module might make those keys work outside of X as well, but I have no experience with that, and even that page you linked to makes it sound like that may not work.


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