Re: [ACPI-sppt] Special keys and ACPI

It seems pretty normal to me since APM is controled by the BIOS directly 
and ACPI is not. I don't have any special help to give you unfortunately...

Vincent Fouquereau
http://www.thecrashsite.com

Heberto del Rio wrote:

> Hi, I am new on this list. I have a Gateway 600XL (Solo?), probably 
> what is most important is the BIOS: BIOSPhoenix 4.06, laptop running
> SuSE 8.2 and something curious happens: if I enable apm (on the boot
> command line, disable acpi) I have all of my special functions working
> perfectly, Fn+F2 gives me the status of the battery (in both modes, text
> and graphics) Fn+F3 switches from LCD to CRT and visceversa (in both 
> modes,
> text and graphics) and some other Fn+ key combinations, but if I enable
> acpi none of these key combinations works. Something strange is the 
> fact that one of the combinations of keys Fn+F9 is the Pad Lock which 
> works independently of the power management. Is there any particular 
> reason for this behavior? Any suggestions?
>
> Something
>
> I think this has nothing to do with configuring the keyboard via xkbd 
> since
> I don't touch the keymap in either case.
>
> Heberto del Rio
>
>
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