Some buttons don't work on Inspiron N5010

[Nayar]

On my Dell Inspiron N5010, the battery and disable/enable touchpad buttons doesn't work.

http://www.laptopskeyboard.com/3190-...0-keyboard.jpg

First row 4rd and 14th. They worked on Ubuntu 11.04 and work with Windows 7.

Regards

[Teunis]

Re: Some buttons don't work on Inspiron N5010

Have you searched the package manager for Dell?

Because I find a package called i8kutils and it's description is:

This is a collection of utilities to control Dell Inspiron and Latitude laptops. It includes programs to turn the fan on and off, to read fan status, CPU temperature, BIOS version and to handle the volume buttons and Fn-keys.

I could imagine the Fn-Keys feature is what you need.

[Nayar]

Re: Some buttons don't work on Inspiron N5010

Fn keys and music controls, screen brightness controls,wireless buttons work fine by default.

Its just that when i press the disable touchpad button, the touchpad is not disabled. On Ubuntu, when i would press the battery button, a pop-up would come and say how battery i got left.

[geoaraujo]

Re: Some buttons don't work on Inspiron N5010

Fn keys and music controls, screen brightness controls,wireless buttons work fine by default.

Its just that when i press the disable touchpad button, the touchpad is not disabled. On Ubuntu, when i would press the battery button, a pop-up would come and say how battery i got left.

Same here.

[Snowhog]

Re: Some buttons don't work on Inspiron N5010

Are you pressing the fn key (between the right ctrl and the Windows button) and the specified Function key for Battery and Touchpad?

[geoaraujo]

Re: Some buttons don't work on Inspiron N5010

Are you pressing the fn key (between the right ctrl and the Windows button) and the specified Function key for Battery and Touchpad?

Still no luck Snowhog...

[Snowhog]

Re: Some buttons don't work on Inspiron N5010

As to the touchpad, you can look at installing (if it isn't already) kde-config-touchpad. If it is installed it appears under Utilities as synaptiks. When launched it will load to the System Tray. You can configure the touchpad to be turned off when a mouse is plugged in, which is what I have it set to on my laptop.

[geoaraujo]

Re: Some buttons don't work on Inspiron N5010

As to the touchpad, you can look at installing (if it isn't already) kde-config-touchpad. If it is installed it appears under Utilities as synaptiks. When launched it will load to the System Tray. You can configure the touchpad to be turned off when a mouse is plugged in, which is what I have it set to on my laptop.

Yes, I know that. By the way, touchpad is disable by default on 11.04 when pressing Crtl+Alt+T. The thing is the functions keys that show battery and enable/disable keyboard don't work.

[Nayar]

Re: Some buttons don't work on Inspiron N5010

sorry for late reply. i didn't put auto subscribe on

Anyways, our issue is not to set the computer in a certain way like disable touchpad when mouse is connected etc. We are just saying that the shortcuts buttons don't do anything.

Regards