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Hi all

My update went mostly well, except for some small hiccups.
I could deal with most of them but not this one.

Some of my fn key combinations have stop working.

Not working:

• fn-NumEnter : calculator
  fn-F9 : touchpad on/off
  fn-F10 : mute
  fn-F11/F12 : sound down/up

Working:

• fn-F1 : sleep
  fn-F2 : wifi
  fn-F5/F6 : brightness down/up
  fn-F7 : screen off

I don't know about the fn-arrows (never used them)

I have no idea where to look.

"xinput test" does not display events on the working combinations neither, so this wasn't any help

On "cinnamon-settings keyboard" and "gnome-control-center keyboard" only the not working are listed, and they look ok. Reseting them does not help (through dconf)


I am running LMDE 64bit with cinnamon on an Asus x54c

I hope you can help me

No one

Can someone at least point me to a direction.
Where should I look?
What controls the fn keys?
something....

any idea would be would be appreciated

Hi vradypos,

this one worked for me (Asus X55C running Mint 16 Petra 64 Bit):

box301 ~ $ cat /etc/rc.local
#!/bin/sh -e
...
# enable FN+F9 to toggle touchpad on/off
modprobe asus_nb_wmi
...

Those sources where helpful to me to sched some light on this:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Ex ... board_Keys
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Xbindkeys

Best rgds
ew

PS: And once again thanks to community who contributed this first place - I'm far away from being a guru ..)