Day: April 19, 2007

Now, what's with the artwork for Fedora recently? I've been looking at some of my old screenshots of RH9 and FC1 and they left me wondering… why did the old version look so much more clean, neat and professional than the new versions?

Now, I've got nothing against air balloons, but it's hardly the most professional of images to be the default for rhgb, GDM, grub, and the default wallpaper. What about some sleek new lines for F8?

The cynic inside of me would say that RHEL is kept more professional as it's not the product that being given away for free. Also, some of the Echo icons are nice, but I really think the Tango theme is much more professional. Comments?

Okay. In playing with this laptop some more, I'm trying to fix the suspend and hibernate keyboard buttons. Suspend is activated using Fn+F4 and hibernate Fn+F12. Or at least that's what they are meant to do.

I'm getting the following in my dmesg:

Suspend:
atkbd.c: Unknown key pressed (translated set 2, code 0x97 on isa0060/serio0).
atkbd.c: Use 'setkeycodes e017 <keycode>' to make it known.
atkbd.c: Unknown key released (translated set 2, code 0x97 on isa0060/serio0).
atkbd.c: Use 'setkeycodes e017 <keycode>' to make it known.

Hibernate:
atkbd.c: Unknown key pressed (translated set 2, code 0x98 on isa0060/serio0).
atkbd.c: Use 'setkeycodes e018 <keycode>' to make it known.
atkbd.c: Unknown key released (translated set 2, code 0x98 on isa0060/serio0).
atkbd.c: Use 'setkeycodes e018 <keycode>' to make it known.

Now, I know I could hack up something involving rc.local and setkeycodes but what's the real way to fix this so it works out of the box for people? This is on Fedora Core Rawhide. Either post a comment or email me at richard_at_hughsie_dot_com please.

Thanks.