Re: Samsung 90X3A Fn Keys

[Victor Engmark <victor.engmark@xxxxxxxxx>]

n Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 8:00 PM, Greg KH <greg@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 03:10:45PM +1100, Ian Coleman wrote:
>> I am trying to get the Fn+F7 and Fn+F8 keys working on my Samsung
>> laptop, model 90X3A. These map to 'keyboard illumination down' and
>> 'keyboard illumination up', which sets the brightness of the LEDs
>> behind the keyboard.
>>
>> I have started a thread here
>> http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1751914 about this issue
>>
>> I have managed to get the scan code (0x96 and 0x97) to respond with
>> the correct key code (kbdillumup and kbdillumdown) when I run
>> /lib/udev/keymap -i input/event4
>>
>> However the keyboard backlight level still does not change when these
>> buttons are pressed.
>
> Are you using the proper kernel driver for this laptop (samsung-laptop)
> that provides the ability to change the backlight levels?
>
> If not, the keys themselves are not going to do anything on their own,
> sorry.

Is there an Ubuntu package for this?

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Victor Engmark
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