By chance I found that support for radio switching and the hotkey buttons is already in recent linux kernel.
I think it’s included since 2.6.17, but a bit hard to find. The module is called wistron_btns, so try to
# modprobe wistron_btns
and you are done, if your distribution kernel has it included.
If you compile your own kernel, you can activate the wistron_btns at
Device Drivers ---> Input device support ---> [*] Miscellaneous devices --->x86 Wistron laptop button interface
To activate support for the hotkey buttons use a input device section like this in your xorg.conf
Section "InputDevice" Identifier "Notebook Keyboard" Driver "kbd" Option "XkbRules" "xorg" Option "XkbModel" "pc105" Option "XkbLayout" "de+acer_laptop" Option "XkbVariant" "nodeadkeys" EndSection
The most important thing here is to add acer_laptop to the XkbLayout. With that you are able to bind your hotkey buttons to shortcuts e.g. in kcontrol.
Happy notebooking! 8)
Hi!
Thx for this tips! I just wonder if acer_acpi (from http://code.google.com/p/aceracpi/) is needed for the keyboard layout to work ?
I’ve documented this for the french wiki for Fedora 8 (Fedora 7 doesn’t seems to have the required kernel module yet…)
Again thx!
Hello kwizart,
can you help me to realise this solution. I am using Ubuntu 7.10 with Gnome and Amilo M 7400.
Kind regards
STefan
Hey there, would be cool if you can create a file named „fsam-is-obsolete-read-www.zwobbl.de“ in this path:
http://zwobbl.homelinux.net/pub/
Because I wondered that the kernel modules doesn’t compile…
Thx and greets
HennR
Hi,
I tried to modprobe the module. But it says:
FATAL: Error inserting wistron_btns (/lib/modules/2.6.27-7-generic/kernel/drivers/input/misc/wistron_btns.ko): No such device
So for some Laptops like my FSM AM 7440 the driver is not obsolete yet!
Chris
Thank you very much =)
I spent two evening wondering why WLAN does not work. Then finally a kind soul on Ubuntu forum found this for me.
There’s only one problem. How do I tricker this in every session and without system asking password for root?
Hi zwobbl,
I don’t think it is obsolete – I still need it to enable my ipw2100 radio on a Maxdata 7000DX!
I will host the modified version on my website at
http://legolas558.iragan.com/pub/linux/
I’m late i know, but still thanks !!!! 🙂
Also tried the new Wistron and go the following error:
~$ modprobe wistron_btns
WARNING: All config files need .conf: /etc/modprobe.d/oss-compat, it will be ignored in a future release.
FATAL: Error inserting wistron_btns (/lib/modules/2.6.28-11-generic/kernel/drivers/input/misc/wistron_btns.ko): Operation not permitted
Hard to understand, if I boot using a previous kernel version, the fsam7400 worked.
thank you very much, that was helpfull