About a week ago, I acquired an Acer Nitro 5 AN515-58. I was tossing trash into my apt building's dumpster, when I noticed the edge of a laptop peeking out underneath a bag. So I took it in, disassembled it, and found no obvious issues besides needing to reapply thermal paste, and needing a power supply, and a few cosmetic exterior surface scratches on the casing. I bought a brick online, put in a bigger SSD, installed Windows 11 Pro, tried a few games, everything seems functional. I'm not sure why it was thrown away, but it's perfectly good hardware. I don't like to let good computers go to waste.
However, it has an extra non standard key beside the numpad. Acer calls it a "NitroSense" key, apparently. In Windows, the functionality of this key is controlled by their proprietary application which can be found on the drivers download support page. The key does nothing without this program.
Now it's dualbooting a minimal Debian Bookworm. I would like to either remap this key to a custom function. Or blacklist it, if it was designed in a way that it can't be used by anything else. Ideas?
However, it has an extra non standard key beside the numpad. Acer calls it a "NitroSense" key, apparently. In Windows, the functionality of this key is controlled by their proprietary application which can be found on the drivers download support page. The key does nothing without this program.
Now it's dualbooting a minimal Debian Bookworm. I would like to either remap this key to a custom function. Or blacklist it, if it was designed in a way that it can't be used by anything else. Ideas?
Statistics: Posted by Enigma83 — 2024-08-16 20:43 — Replies 0 — Views 7