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kurisutian

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From: Germany

Registered: 2009-04-04

Posts: 32

Hotkeys not working on my Thinkpad Laptop

Hi!

I have a little problem with my Lenovo Thinkpad T61. I have set up everything so for mostly using hal to set up the synaptics touchpad and so on.
But there are two things I'm not able to deal with. There are Hotkeys to turn on/off Bluetooth and/or WLAN by pressing FN+F5 and and a hotkey to enable/disable the Touchpad. So far I have not been able to configure any of them.
I tested the hotkeys with the current kubuntu jaunty live-cd and at least the bluetooth and wlan toggeling worked out of the box. But I have no idea what they did to make it work. I even copied their fdi policies and copied them into my system but no change.
This is driving me nuts since I don't really like to turn on/off bluetooth as a root user by echoing "enable"/"disable" in the console.

Does anyone managed to make it work?
Maybe somebody can help me with it!

Thanks!

mechmg93

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From: Greece

Registered: 2007-05-23

Posts: 197

Re: Hotkeys not working on my Thinkpad Laptop

i have exactly the same problem.

i installed arch in my lenovo R61, and the only thing that does not work for me is FN+F5, which should handle bluetooth and wlan.

what shlould i do in order to make it work?

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Sara

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From: USA

Registered: 2009-07-09

Posts: 219

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Re: Hotkeys not working on my Thinkpad Laptop

Configure them with your /etc/acpi/handler.sh script.

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XG

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Registered: 2009-08-04

Posts: 2

Re: Hotkeys not working on my Thinkpad Laptop

This maybe helps http://dotimes.com/articles/t61-slackwa … -acpi.html