eeepc 1015B issues (fn-keys, screen brightness, sound)

[CellarDweller]

Hello!


I've got the Asus Eee PC 1015B netbook and running Fedora 16. And I am facing the following problems:

• function keys aren't working at all
  The Fn-Keys for adjusting speakers, brightness of the screen and such stuff aren't responding at all. They work on the (pre-installed Windows 7) and do what they should do under Open SuSe.
  
  
• sound issues
  I had no sound - the system found both sound-devices and the appropriate drivers were loaded. Only in VLC player I was able to get any sound because only there I was able to definitely select *this* or *that* soundcard.
  
  After installing *Battle for Wesnoth* and giving it a frustrated try to play it without sound I suddenly got the whole soundsystem blasting at full level. Now everything works fine - but don't ask me how.
  
  Which is somehow frustrating because I was really trying to figure this out - and then it worked by itself. Which might bear the risk that it also might begone another moment.
  
• screen brightness
  As mentioned above - I can't adjust the brightness of the LCD screen. I already installed *Jupiter* and it does what it should do, like en-/disabling power-save modes etc, - though the FN keys still don't work. And the screen at full brightness becomes really painful over some time.
  
  I looked-up this issues in different forums and internet-searches, and it seems to be a common problem.
  
  My guess also is that this problems are quite independent from the Desktop Environment - at least they are present in LXDE and XFCE4 and dwm.

So my question is:

where can I adjust the screen brightness via shell?
I don't need to raise or lower it very often, because I really like to work with a dimmed screen, don't watch much video on this and don't work in the graphics field on this netbook.


Thanks in advance for your support and all your efforts!

[rokytnji]

I don't run Fedora. Have you looked through the

Eee PC - FedoraProject

wiki?

or go with

eeepc 1015B issues - FedoraForum.org

somebody mentioned they fixed screen brightness in Fedora 16 with

sudo yum reinstall bash

from

» Adjust screen brightness on fedora 16 – try this if it’s not working grdryn

[rokytnji]

If I was to run a rpm distro on a EEEPC. I'd probably go with

Fuduntu • Home

[CellarDweller]

Not allowed to post urls, so:

I started the thread at fedoraforums too(asking in different places)

I did go through the wiki at Fedora - but there is one major question: where do I insert this stuff to ?
I don't want to fumble around with the kernel without knowing what to do. If BASH causes problems with screen brightness, then what might happen if I do something wrong with the inner core?


Re-installing BASH didn't work for me on Fedora 16.


But thanks a lot so far! I'll keep on trying and have to work on SuSe (where the Fn-Keys work). This extra-bright screen causes headache after a while. Sigh.

Fuduntu sounds very nice - bringing my two favorite Distributions (so far) together - so I'll soon give it a try. But still: switching the whole Distro because of some rather minor issues doesn't sound like an optin to me. But anyhow: thanks for the support so far!

[rokytnji]

where do I insert this stuff to ?

Looks to me like the Fedora Wiki is going stale.

FN keys not working
eeepc_laptop is not loaded. Edit /boot/grub/menu.lst. Add 'acpi_osi=Linux' to the kernel options.

Since Fedora has moved on to Grub2. That part of the wiki needs updating since grub2 has no /boot/grub/menu.lst

Not my fault I wonder where the fedora users are in this forum that can coach you to edit grub2 in Fedora.

I was just mentioning Fuduntu because the developer Fewt built Jupiter and EEE Control. He also built Fuduntu with EEEPCs in mind. So the kernel is configured for EEEPC Netbooks also. I did not know if you were aware of that, is all I meant in my post.

GRUB 2 bootloader - Full tutorial

Features/Grub2 - FedoraProject

[oz]

Not allowed to post urls

Hello and welcome!

You can find some temporary workarounds for the 15-posts requirement to post URLs here:

http://www.linuxforums.org/forum/lin...-user-faq.html

[CellarDweller]

s...since grub2 has no /boot/grub/menu.lst

I remembered something like this existing and wondered where I went. Sigh

...Fuduntu because the developer Fewt built Jupiter and EEE Control. He also built Fuduntu with EEEPCs in mind. So the kernel is configured for EEEPC Netbooks also. I did not know if you were aware of that, is all I meant in my post.

Sounds great! And yes - I guessed that it was meant that way. But what a great recommendation! Thanks!!!

So the journey goes on.