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Topic: Brightness and keyboard issues on EEE 1005PE

Hi everybody.
I just installed #! on my eee and I have the following problems:
1. screen brightness is impossible to control except for random adjustments with the hotkeys that never gives me sufficient light.
2. the keyboard layout is wrong. I have a norwegian qwerty board and my special norwegian letters as well as all shift+number combinations come out wrong.

If anyone can help me I´d be really grateful. Thanks

  • luc
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Re: Brightness and keyboard issues on EEE 1005PE

welcome here rawmonkee
if I may assume you are using crunchbang 10 statler with the openbox version (correct me if I'm wrong) then i can advise for your second problem:
see the known issues and check your ~/.config/openbox/autostart.sh file for the line saying "setxkbmap ..." and edit this to your country code.
luc

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Re: Brightness and keyboard issues on EEE 1005PE

Thanks luc, but I don#t how to edit the country code... I opened the file and found the line saying cb-setxkbmap-live &
but then what_ christ I can#t write with these keys, sorry.

*this is my keyboard doin the typos here...(

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Re: Brightness and keyboard issues on EEE 1005PE

I tried the method described in known issues and it worked! Look I can type questionmarks ??? and æ ø å...:D

So thanks luc, for providing the information.

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Re: Brightness and keyboard issues on EEE 1005PE

Now I haven't solved the hotkey problems yet. Neither brightness nor volume is affected by the fn+ procedure.

Should I post this separately?

  • Registered: 2009-06-29
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Re: Brightness and keyboard issues on EEE 1005PE

Install eee-control and then run eee-control-tray. it should let you control volume and brightness with the fn keys.

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Re: Brightness and keyboard issues on EEE 1005PE

I installed something called eeepc-acpi-scripts - didn't find the eee-control. But I have no idea how to use it.

  • luc
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Re: Brightness and keyboard issues on EEE 1005PE

when bconnor said "run eee-control-tray" he/she means:
open either a terminal (press super+t) or the "run"-dialogue (press alt+f2) and then type

 eee-control-tray

and press enter.

EDIT:
how did you install it? if you did it a different way you can still try to run in a terminal ( see above smile )

sudo apt-get install eee-control

this will ask for your user password (in  the terminal), if you want to run it in the run dialogue you have to replace "sudo" by "gksudo" (this will pop up a window to ask for your password)
luc

Last edited by luc (2010-09-08 08:33:35)

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Re: Brightness and keyboard issues on EEE 1005PE

luc: bconnor said "run eee-control-tray" - is that foobar?

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  • luc
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Re: Brightness and keyboard issues on EEE 1005PE

sorry. i changed it

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Re: Brightness and keyboard issues on EEE 1005PE

I don't have that package, as I mentioned there was only the eeepc-acpi-scripts... Does anyone know where to get the eee-control repository?

Last edited by rawmonkee (2010-09-08 20:04:15)

  • Registered: 2009-06-29
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Re: Brightness and keyboard issues on EEE 1005PE

Check out http://greg.geekmind.org/eee-control/#install for information on installing eee-control.

I also remembered something about volume control. I have an eee pc 1000 and had issues getting my fn volume keys working. I did find a solution, though, and wrote up a post about it.

http://crunchbanglinux.org/forums/topic … on-eee-pc/

try putting this in your rc.xml

   <keybind key="XF86AudioLowerVolume">
      <action name="Execute">
      <execute>amixer -q set Master 10-</execute>
      </action>
    </keybind>
    <keybind key="XF86AudioRaiseVolume">
      <action name="Execute">
      <execute>amixer -q set Master 10+</execute>
      </action>
    </keybind>
    <keybind key="XF86AudioMute">
      <action name="Execute">
      <execute>amixer -q set Master toggle</execute>
      </action>
    </keybind>

If those keybind keys don't work, I'm pretty sure you can find the correct ones with gnome-keybinding-properties.

Hope this helps!

Last edited by bconnor (2010-09-09 02:16:20)