Public bug reported:
Binary package hint: hotkey-setup
Worked fine in hardy, doesn't work in Intrepid beta full updated
(2008-12-10).
I boot to recovery mode, just console, so no X involved.
I press Fn+right arrow (= brightness up) and the character "?" is echoed. The
brightness does increase, but three times, like I had pressed the key 3 times.
If I do this under X, it's exactly the same, only I see the echoed character as
"±".
Fn+left arrow (= brightness down) decreases the brightness 3 times without
echoing any character.
Back to plain console, if I switch the keyboard to Greek (=shift+alt),
everything works OK!!!
No echoed characters, brightness increasing/decreasing 1 time, normally.
Then when I switch back to English, sometimes it remains fixed, other times
it's happening again.
Switching keyboard languages in X doesn't make any difference.
There are other keys misbehaving (like, when I'm back to English in
console, backspace may be echoing a diamond character instead of
deleting the previous char), but I'd better keep it focused on the
brightness keys.
> sudo dmidecode -s system-manufacturer
Acer, inc.
> sudo dmidecode -s system-product-name
Aspire 5920G
> sudo dmidecode -s system-version
Not Applicable
> showkey
# A *single* Fn+Left arrow pressing/releasing:
keycode 224 press
keycode 224 release
keycode 224 press
keycode 224 release
keycode 224 press
keycode 224 release
# A *single* Fn+Right arrow pressing/releasing:
keycode 118 press
keycode 118 release
keycode 225 press
keycode 225 release
keycode 225 press
keycode 225 release
> showkey -s
# A *single* Fn+Left arrow pressing/releasing:
0xe0 0x4c 0xe0 0xcc
0xe0 0x4c 0xe0 0xcc 0xe0 0x4c 0xe0 0xcc
# A ***single*** Fn+Right arrow pressing/releasing:
0xe0 0x4e 0xe0 0xce
0xe0 0x54 0xe0 0xd4 0xe0 0x54 0xe0 0xd4
I probably don't need to include this, because I'm mainly talking about the
console, but anyway,
> setxkbmap -print
xkb_keymap {
xkb_keycodes { include "evdev+aliases(qwerty)" };
xkb_types { include "complete" };
xkb_compat { include "complete+ledscroll(group_lock)" };
xkb_symbols { include
"pc+us+gr(extended):2+inet(evdev)+group(alt_shift_toggle)+level3(ralt_switch)"
};
xkb_geometry { include "pc(pc105)" };
};
Kind regards,
Alkis Georgopoulos
** Affects: hotkey-setup (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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Acer Aspire 5920G Fn keys not working correctly
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/281951
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