First off thanks to everyone contributing to this bug, I've found the information very helpful, especially to Shawe since without those scripts, I wouldn't even have had the foggiest idea how to get the hotkeys working. =]
My laptop is a HP 8510w, so Shawe's scripts don't work out of the box for me. I ended up adding my model to the FDI file, and things pretty much work. In the process, I also made the HAL scripts less Sony specific. I've packaged up my modified files here: http://testing.pyen.com/~ajani/nvidia8-fnkeys.tar.bz2 Shawe, I'm especially interested in what you think of my changes, and if other could tell me if this works for them, that would be great, too. I do have one question: I didn't make any changes to the acpid scripts; my model uses /etc/acpi/video_brightness{down,up}.sh. Do those only need to be changed so that the brightness keys will work when not in Gnome? Here's a list of the changes that I've made: * replaced 'sony' with nvidia8, to make it more obvious that it's not sony specific * changed the access method name to nvidia8 because it now supports non-sony models * moved the check for the nvidia8 laptop panel access method to the top of the hal get and set scripts so that the check fot /sys/class/backlight doesn't have to be commented out. This should make it easier to incorporate these changes into the hal packages. * install script: - changed script to use dpkg-divert to make backups of replaced files so that upgrades of the packages for those files won't break the setup - removed 'make install' step, since it isn't needed - changed chmods on scripts to be 755, so that other and group get executable bit - change chmod on the fdi to be 644, since it doesn't need to be executable - added a 'sudo' in front of every command that needs root priviledges so that I can run the script as my normal user - All of the files except nvclock source are included in the tarball, so it doesn't download anything except nvclock * Added an uninstall script -- No Screen Backlight Control; Notebooks (Vaio, Macbook, HP/Compaq, Samsung, Zepto et al.) with Nvidia Geforce8/Geforce9/Quadro series graphics https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/95444 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
