FN7 not recognised on TP R60

[_diver]

Switching between LCD and VGA connector does not work when ACPI is enabled. If the old apm.sys is enabled the switching works

[cgehr]

I had exactly the same problem during a conference presentation last month:

eCS 1.2R, TPad T60, SMP, ACPI/APM dated 20070809.

The only way I could use the VGA was to select both the LCD+VGA in the BIOS. During boot, the LCD was used until the SNAP driver was loaded. Then the display was switched to the VGA projector. Sometimes it took several reboots to get this far. No amount if Fn-F7 keying was recognized.

FWIW, I have the ThinkPad On-Line Display [TPOLD] tool installed. It was displaying that the system was in 'Dual' mode and should have displayed on both devices. TPOLD showed no indication that the key combination was being depressed.

Carl

[pasha]

Check , that AcpiDaemon is running. If not help - you need in external program for this. Like CRC

[anonymous]

AcpiDaemon is running. CRC could possible be a solution, but up to no there was no luck even with CRC.

_diver

[cgehr]

Replying to pasha:

Check , that AcpiDaemon is running. If not help - you need in external program for this. Like CRC

Sorry for being dense, but what is "CRC" and where would I get it? [ACPIDAEMON is running in my case also, on TPad T60. I do have TPad OnLineDisplay. It does/did not help.]

[Chuck McKinnis]

here some sources for the Fn key and thinkpads ​http://www.jpugh.org/2008/01/use-those-thinkpad-buttons-in-suse-linux.html ​http://thomasgersdorf.com/linux/index.php/Gentoo_Linux_on_IBM_ThinkPad_T60 ​http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/Ibm-acpi

[eco]

Pasha talks:

• it's event from ACPI. it's necessary catch it and make something. the notebook doesn't make efforts by itself.

• Linux -> TP module, IBM_THINKPAD_EXTENTION

• how to implement? in CRC project. It's necessary call ACPI methods, write something to memory, ports.

[Chuck McKinnis]

Happens with the T61 as well.

In the older Thinkpads, T43 and before, the video out port was a slave to the graphics controller and its output was controlled by F7. The newer models appear to have 2 graphics controllers. I don't know if there is some setting of the BIOS that will make the newer models function as the old ones did.

[cgehr]

Replying to stevenhl: Is the projection [six weeks ago] of 3.11 still valid? What is the projected date of 3.11?

Enviornment: eCS 2.0 RC2 on a TPad T60 with all the maintenance that I've found that is applicable. During a conference last week, I could get ONLY the display that was recognized when the system was booted. i.e., If booted with the native LCD display, that was the only display output. If I booted while attached to the external display to make a presentation, that was the only output; the native LCD was dead. Fn-F7 was totally ineffective as it has been since I reported this "12 months ago". [See above.]

[pasha]

Fn key is't problem of acpi.psd/apm.add/AcpiDaemon.exe

[diver]

Is there a chance this will ever work at all?

[David Azarewicz]

I hope so because it is something that I would like to work for my own use. This is still on my list to work on.