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As Tholap said, all I needed was a kernel update, which is effective for a little while now



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I just bought a Asus G75 and I cannot make the Fn keys working.
I only found how to control the brightness (http://askubuntu.com/questions/126441/brightness-controls-doesnt-work-on-a-macbook-pro-5-5-ubuntu-12-04-lts) but the other keys are not recognized.



I didn't know much things about key binding before digging, but I tried :




  • testing with xev : no output...

  • testing with keymap : no output...

  • modprobe asus-laptop :
    FATAL: Error inserting asus_laptop (/lib/modules/3.2.0-25-generic/kernel/drivers/platform/x86/asus-laptop.ko): No such device     (not sure what that means)

  • modprobe asus-nb-wmi : FATAL: Error inserting asus_nb_wmi (/lib/modules/3.2.0-25-generic/drivers/platform/x86/asus-nb-wmi.ko): No such device (not sure what that means)



Thanks for your advice



David


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I have the same problem and looked for a solution. Couldn't find anything that made a difference. The kernel simply doesn't produce any scancodes for most of the Fn key combinations. I guess we'll have to wait for a newer kernel with updated drivers.



This command shows scancodes:



sudo /lib/udev/keymap -i input/event3


Some combinations do work:




  • Fn+F1 - sleep

  • Fn+F2 - toggle wifi

  • Fn+F7 - toggle screen on/off

  • Fn+Del - Ins


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