[Pkg-acpi-devel] Bug#620387: Bug#620387: acpid: Keys Fn-F1 to Fn-F9 (vol mute, vol down, vol up, screen switch, bright up/down)

[Ted Felix]

On 4/5/2011 12:41 AM, Hannes Calitz wrote:
 > It seems the only problem is
 > detecting the hotkeys on F1 to F9. Maybe then not an acpi problem but
 > rather a hal or xorg problem?

   Usually, this is a kernel driver issue.  It's easy to eliminate acpid 
as the cause simply by running a window manager that disables acpid, but 
handles the hotkeys.  If you are running GNOME, then acpid is not involved.

   To check and see whether the kernel is sending any events at all, use 
the kacpimon utility.  The man page for kacpimon explains how to use 
it.  And I believe Debian installs kacpimon along with acpid.  (Correct 
me if wrong, Michael.)

Ted.