Comment 6 for bug 250732

hi Yoboy
 I'm not sure where to start with this one so before I post the outputs of xev etc it might be worth saying that the Fujitsi Amilo 1718 Li was sold by big supermarkets namely Tesco etc and so owners trying Ubuntu might not get as far as bug reports etc before giving up but they are out there in large numbers.

The script mentioned by Alexander is a lifesaver for people like me and was written by Assaf Paz originally for a 1600 series amilo and can be found on the amilo forums as well as his damagedspline blog listed above

http://www.amilo-forum.com/topic,929,60,-linux-on-amilo-li-1718.htm

After a clean install of Ubuntu 8.10 and all current updates the Hotkeys that work are all accessed by using the Fn key + another
so
Fn+F1 should be sleep/hibernate this works but a bit too well as nothing will wake the machine up again needs fix
Fn+F3 Mutes sound xev sees this and identifies it also the gnome desktop shows a graphical muted speaker
Fn+F5 Volume up xev sees this identifies it and gnome desktop graphical speaker up shows
Fn+F6 Volume down xev sees this and identifies it gnome desktop shops a graphical speaker down
Fn+F7 brightness up Xev sees something doesn't identify it as brightness no graphical display on desktop but key works
Fn+F8 brightness down xev doen't see at all no graphical display on gnome desktop but key works brightness goes down

now the fancy keys for
wireless
internet
Fan quieten
none of them do anything

Also because Ubuntu 8.10 misidentifies the built in wireless card it knows its atheros but goes for the wrong device id
the script has to fix that.
But here we are concerned with the hotkeys only so looking in /user/share/hotkeys we won't have a suitable entry for the amilo until after the script is run then we have a new entry when we issue the command hotkey -l in a terminal we find fsca16xx.def
which contains the following information

<?xml version="1.0"?>

<definition>

  <config model="Fujitsu-Siemens Amilo A16xx">
    <userdef keycode="129" command="/etc/acpi/fsc-cpuspeed.sh">Cool-n'-Quiet On$
    <userdef keycode="147" command="/etc/acpi/fsc-wireless.sh">Wireless On/Off<$
  </config>

  <contributor>
    <name>Assaf Paz</name>
    <email><email address hidden></email>
  </contributor>

</definition>

hopefully that helps you identify the keys

If you give me some instructions on what you need to fix the keys and identify the model correctly on install I am only too glad to help apparently the fix using acerhk will not work on a 64bit kernel I'm pretty sure Assaf Paz would be a mine of useful information if contacted.