Hot keys in asus eee

[abokser]

Hi gentlemen:

I own an asus eee 1005H

With 9.10 I've got full functionality of the function keys, but not with 10.04
Unfortunately Google didn't help too much. It seems there is a problem with acpi-support-base, but I couldn't fix it.

I'm mainly concerned in getting a way of deactivate the wifi hardware just for saving some battery when I don't need to be connected.
Any help would be gracefully received.
Thanks

Alejandro

[pavel989]

r u positive that 10.04 knows what keyboard your using?

[abokser]

Thanks for answer so promptly.

Yes I am.

Fortunately I left my 9.10 live and kicking in a different partition, so I am able of comparing both versions.

9.10 is still controlling functions keys.

Nevertheless 10.04 controls some keys like F1 for hibernate, F5 and F6 for dim and bright, but not F2 for toggle wlan on and off, and F10, F11 and F12 for loud control.

Alejandro

[pavel989]

np, to clarify though, this are not special function keys, not like Fn?

[abokser]

Well, I don't clearly understand the question, perhaps due to some limitation with language, but when say F1, F2, etc I mean Fn+F1, Fn+F2, etc

Alejandro

[pavel989]

you understood correctly. can you please identify which eee model you have?

in addition, would you please pastebin or post your /etc/grub/default file (assuming your using grub2)

[abokser]

Mi netbook is an Asus eee pc 1005 HA.

I'm using grub-2, but /etc/grub/ is not a directory. I think the following is what you asked for, if I'm wrong let me know.

$ cat /etc/default/grub
# If you change this file, run 'update-grub' afterwards to update
# /boot/grub/grub.cfg.

GRUB_DEFAULT=0
#GRUB_HIDDEN_TIMEOUT=0
GRUB_HIDDEN_TIMEOUT_QUIET=true
GRUB_TIMEOUT=10
GRUB_DISTRIBUTOR=`lsb_release -i -s 2> /dev/null || echo Debian`
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash"
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX=""

# Uncomment to disable graphical terminal (grub-pc only)
#GRUB_TERMINAL=console

# The resolution used on graphical terminal
# note that you can use only modes which your graphic card supports via VBE
# you can see them in real GRUB with the command `vbeinfo'
#GRUB_GFXMODE=640x480

# Uncomment if you don't want GRUB to pass "root=UUID=xxx" parameter to Linux
#GRUB_DISABLE_LINUX_UUID=true

# Uncomment to disable generation of recovery mode menu entries
#GRUB_DISABLE_LINUX_RECOVERY="true"

# Uncomment to get a beep at grub start
#GRUB_INIT_TUNE="480 440 1"




$ cat /boot/grub/grub.cfg
#
# DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE
#
# It is automatically generated by /usr/sbin/grub-mkconfig using templates
# from /etc/grub.d and settings from /etc/default/grub
#

### BEGIN /etc/grub.d/00_header ###
if [ -s $prefix/grubenv ]; then
load_env
fi
set default="0"
if [ ${prev_saved_entry} ]; then
set saved_entry=${prev_saved_entry}
save_env saved_entry
set prev_saved_entry=
save_env prev_saved_entry
set boot_once=true
fi

function savedefault {
if [ -z ${boot_once} ]; then
saved_entry=${chosen}
save_env saved_entry
fi
}

function recordfail {
set recordfail=1
if [ -n ${have_grubenv} ]; then if [ -z ${boot_once} ]; then save_env recordfail; fi; fi
}
insmod ext2
set root='(hd0,7)'
search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set 7b16e8ac-28f1-48c1-bc58-54bae76288d7
if loadfont /usr/share/grub/unicode.pf2 ; then
set gfxmode=640x480
insmod gfxterm
insmod vbe
if terminal_output gfxterm ; then true ; else
# For backward compatibility with versions of terminal.mod that don't
# understand terminal_output
terminal gfxterm
fi
fi
insmod ext2
set root='(hd0,7)'
search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set 7b16e8ac-28f1-48c1-bc58-54bae76288d7
set locale_dir=($root)/boot/grub/locale
set lang=es
insmod gettext
if [ ${recordfail} = 1 ]; then
set timeout=-1
else
set timeout=10
fi
### END /etc/grub.d/00_header ###

### BEGIN /etc/grub.d/05_debian_theme ###
insmod ext2
set root='(hd0,7)'
search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set 7b16e8ac-28f1-48c1-bc58-54bae76288d7
insmod tga
if background_image /usr/share/images/grub/tux-joker_800.tga ; then
set color_normal=green/black
set color_highlight=magenta/black
else
set menu_color_normal=white/black
set menu_color_highlight=black/light-gray
fi
### END /etc/grub.d/05_debian_theme ###

### BEGIN /etc/grub.d/10_linux ###
menuentry 'Ubuntu, con Linux 2.6.32-22-generic' --class ubuntu --class gnu-linux --class gnu --class os {
recordfail
insmod ext2
set root='(hd0,7)'
search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set 7b16e8ac-28f1-48c1-bc58-54bae76288d7
linux /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.32-22-generic root=UUID=7b16e8ac-28f1-48c1-bc58-54bae76288d7 ro quiet splash
initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.32-22-generic
}
menuentry 'Ubuntu, con Linux 2.6.32-22-generic (modo recuperación)' --class ubuntu --class gnu-linux --class gnu --class os {
recordfail
insmod ext2
set root='(hd0,7)'
search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set 7b16e8ac-28f1-48c1-bc58-54bae76288d7
echo 'Cargando Linux 2.6.32-22-generic ...'
linux /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.32-22-generic root=UUID=7b16e8ac-28f1-48c1-bc58-54bae76288d7 ro single
echo 'Cargando el disco RAM inicial...'
initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.32-22-generic
}
### END /etc/grub.d/10_linux ###

### BEGIN /etc/grub.d/20_memtest86+ ###
menuentry "Memory test (memtest86+)" {
insmod ext2
set root='(hd0,7)'
search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set 7b16e8ac-28f1-48c1-bc58-54bae76288d7
linux16 /boot/memtest86+.bin
}
menuentry "Memory test (memtest86+, serial console 115200)" {
insmod ext2
set root='(hd0,7)'
search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set 7b16e8ac-28f1-48c1-bc58-54bae76288d7
linux16 /boot/memtest86+.bin console=ttyS0,115200n8
}
### END /etc/grub.d/20_memtest86+ ###

### BEGIN /etc/grub.d/30_os-prober ###
menuentry "Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition (on /dev/sda1)" {
insmod ntfs
set root='(hd0,1)'
search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set e8402a4b402a20b4
drivemap -s (hd0) ${root}
chainloader +1
}
menuentry "Ubuntu, Linux 2.6.31-20-generic (on /dev/sda5)" {
insmod ext2
set root='(hd0,5)'
search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set 9f8d4029-47b4-4443-a6d5-c015a536c13d
linux /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.31-20-generic root=UUID=9f8d4029-47b4-4443-a6d5-c015a536c13d ro quiet splash
initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.31-20-generic
}
menuentry "Ubuntu, Linux 2.6.31-20-generic (recovery mode) (on /dev/sda5)" {
insmod ext2
set root='(hd0,5)'
search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set 9f8d4029-47b4-4443-a6d5-c015a536c13d
linux /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.31-20-generic root=UUID=9f8d4029-47b4-4443-a6d5-c015a536c13d ro single
initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.31-20-generic
}
### END /etc/grub.d/30_os-prober ###

### BEGIN /etc/grub.d/40_custom ###
# This file provides an easy way to add custom menu entries. Simply type the
# menu entries you want to add after this comment. Be careful not to change
# the 'exec tail' line above.
### END /etc/grub.d/40_custom ###

Thanks again

[Julita]

Hi! I am using 1001HA, the model quite similar to yours. You may want to look at http://forum.eeeuser.com/ There were some scripts given for your model to work. In my case, I don't need the aforementioned buttons, I control sound via Alsamixer (I don't use Pulseaudio) by the way, before I removed Pulseaudio, the sound controls worked out of the box.

[abokser]

You will porbably mean eeepc-acpi-scripts but

Depends: acpi-support-base but it is not installable

I was already looking around there.

Thanks a lot anyway

Alejandro

[abokser]

I found out this

http://forum.eeeuser.com/viewtopic.php?pid=420248

Perhaps could be useful

By the way with 9.10 everything worked out of the box in my case.

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