** Description changed:

  Binary package hint: hal-info
  
  As in 8.10, the key that is supposed to deactivate the touchpad on my
  Compaq Presario CQ70 is not working in 9.04 Beta. This key is located
  just above the touchpad, and when activated should deactivate the
  touchpad. The color of the button is white, and when pressed changes to
  red/orange, but apart of this color change, it has no effect.
  
  I have followed the directions on
  https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Hotkeys/Troubleshooting and went until step 9.
  This is the output I get from sudo input-events 4:
  
  [code]
  sudo input-events 4
  /dev/input/event4
     bustype : BUS_I8042
     vendor  : 0x1
     product : 0x1
     version : 43841
     name    : "AT Translated Set 2 keyboard"
     phys    : "isa0060/serio0/input0"
     bits ev : EV_SYN EV_KEY EV_MSC EV_LED EV_REP
  
  waiting for events
  22:11:35.630829: EV_MSC code=4 value=156
  22:11:35.630847: EV_KEY KEY_KPENTER (0x60) released
  22:11:35.630850: EV_SYN code=0 value=0
  22:11:37.473023: EV_MSC code=4 value=216
  22:11:37.473056: EV_SYN code=0 value=0
  22:11:37.479393: EV_MSC code=4 value=216
  22:11:37.479420: EV_SYN code=0 value=0
  22:11:40.252551: EV_MSC code=4 value=217
  22:11:40.252573: EV_KEY KEY_HELP (0x8a) pressed
  22:11:40.252580: EV_SYN code=0 value=0
  22:11:40.259384: EV_MSC code=4 value=217
  22:11:40.259405: EV_KEY KEY_HELP (0x8a) released
  [/code]
  
  What I conclude from this are 2 things:
  - when pressing the key the first time (deactivated -> activated), the key is 
recognized as 216 and has an unknown symbolic key name
  - however when pressing it for the second time, it is recognized as 217 and 
has the name of "EV_KEY KEY_HELP"
  
+ Oh, and by the way, xev detects kind of the same behavior: The fist time the 
key is pressed, nothing happens, but the second time it is detected as keycode 
146:
+ [code]
+ xev | sed -n 's/^.*state \([0-9].*\), keycode *\([0-9]\+\) *\(.*\), 
.*$/keycode \2 = \3, state = \1/p'
+ keycode 146 = (keysym 0xff6a, Help), state = 0x10
+ keycode 146 = (keysym 0xff6a, Help), state = 0x10
+ [/code]
+ 
  Does anyone have an idea how to fix this?
  
  I have attached all the recommended Useful Information:
  
  hal-find-by-capability --capability input | xargs -n1 lshal -u > lshal.log
  lshal |grep system.hardware > lshal_hardware.log
  dmesg > dmesg.log
  sudo lsinput > lsinput.log
  xkbcomp -xkb :0 - > xkbcomp.txt
  setxkbmap -print > xkbmap.txt
  
  Note: xkbcomp -xkb :0 generated the following warning message:
  Warning:          Could not load keyboard geometry for :0
                    BadAlloc (insufficient resources for operation)
                    Resulting keymap file will not describe geometry
  
  
  Thanks,
  Emilien.
  
  P.S.: This is my first bug report, I hope to have included all the
  necessary information! Please tell me if you need more.
  
  
  lsb_release -rd
  Description:  Ubuntu jaunty (development branch)
  Release:      9.04
  
  
  
  apt-cache policy hal-info
  hal-info:
    Installé : 20090324-0ubuntu1
    Candidat : 20090324-0ubuntu1
   Table de version :
   *** 20090324-0ubuntu1 0
          500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com jaunty/main Packages
          100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

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[9.04 Beta] - Hotkey for deactivating touchpad not working
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