Chris: the acpi_listen might work for testing if a key responds at all (or is triggered by ACPI calls), but only passes through codes that the sony-laptop driver actually generates. Therefore you might not see anything at all.
Others: 1) If you do not see any any output from 'acpi_listen' and you are having one of the newer Sony laptop models (e.g. bought within the last nine months or so): the sony-laptop driver is going to be adjusted for this (so: wait a short while). 2) If you do see 'acpi_listen' output, you should also see somekind of output of 'showkey' 3) It might be that even though you see 'showkey' output your keys will not produce output in X environment (e.g. with xev or somesuch). That is a kernel -> X mapping issue. You can help here by adding entries to hal-quirks for your specific laptop model I believe. Update: a fix for this for at least the SR series will be incorporated into the kernel (in a short while). A more permanent fix (so that we will not need to test and adjust code for each new Sony laptop model) is being considered. -- Fn keys on VAIO don't produce keystrokes nor ACPI events https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/251665 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
