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Old March 17th 18, 10:59 PM posted to alt.windows7.general
Mario'sBrother
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Function keys ?
are function keys in need of drivers ?
How do they get their juice ?

e.g. Do not work
under F2 is a Lock icon.
under F4 is a Moon icon
etc ...

These work
under Home/End is a screen brightness up/down
under PgDn is a keyboard light.
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Old March 18th 18, 12:04 AM posted to alt.windows7.general
Mike Easter
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Default Lenovo T500

Mario'sBrother wrote:
Function keys ?
are function keys in need of drivers ?
How do they get their juice ?

e.g. Do not work
under F2 is a Lock icon.
under F4 is a Moon icon
etc ...

These work
under Home/End is a screen brightness up/down


There is a T500 Hardware Maintenance manual which has some info about
the Fn + Function keys on pp.55-57:

FnF2 = Lock
FnF4 = Standby
FnF5 = wifi on/off

.... and the status lights on pp. 50-51.

https://download.lenovo.com/ibmdl/pu...43y6630_03.pdf



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Old March 18th 18, 02:49 AM posted to alt.windows7.general
Paul in Houston TX[_2_]
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Default Lenovo T500

Mario'sBrother wrote:

Function keys ?
are function keys in need of drivers ?
How do they get their juice ?

e.g. Do not work
under F2 is a Lock icon.
under F4 is a Moon icon
etc ...

These work
under Home/End is a screen brightness up/down
under PgDn is a keyboard light.


My T410/W32 and T420/W64 required drivers for the F keys.
I found out when I tried installing W64 on the T410 but did not load
all the files. Some F keys worked and some did not, at least until
I installed ALL of them.
Unfortunately the list at Lenovo does not specify and I don't
remember which driver files do what.
You may need to re-install all of them.
https://download.lenovo.com/eol/index.html


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Old March 18th 18, 02:51 AM posted to alt.windows7.general
VanguardLH[_2_]
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Default Lenovo T500

Mario'sBrother wrote:

Function keys ?
are function keys in need of drivers ?
How do they get their juice ?

e.g. Do not work
under F2 is a Lock icon.
under F4 is a Moon icon
etc ...

These work
under Home/End is a screen brightness up/down
under PgDn is a keyboard light.


I remember a long time ago when cleaning up a Dell laptop that I removed
and then had to reinstall a driver package to support the F-keys. The
F-keys will work as their scan codes are standard; however, the
alternate functions are macros so the ancilliary software might be
needed to provide those macro functions (the macro software detects the
scan code when the Fn and F-keys are both in depressed/down/on state).

You sure the functions you mention (which are not the actual F-keys but
alternate functions) don't require you hitting an Fn key along with the
F-key (i.e., Fn+fkey)? Are those alternate actions colored (blue)?
If so, the Fn key is probably also colored blue to clue you into using
it for the alternate (blue) functions on the F-keys.
 




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