** Summary changed: - Brightness buttons on Samsung R610 don't work + Some hotkeys don't work on Samsung R610
** Description changed: Binary package hint: hal-info Hopefully I've done this correctly after following the hotkeys troubleshooting guide at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Hotkeys/Troubleshooting - The brightness buttons, fn+up and fn+down do not work on my Samsung R610 - laptop using Jaunty (didn't work in Intrepid either for that matter). - The following is the output from input-events: + A number of hotkeys on my Samsung R610 laptop do not work with Jaunty + (they didn't work with Intrepid either). The keys that do not work are: + + fn+f2 Show battery gauge (Samsung specific feature) + fn+f4 Switch between crt/lcd (haven't been able to test with external yet but the screen doesn't go black) + fn+f5 Turn backlight on/off + fn+f8 Easy speedup manager (Samsung specific feature) + fn+f9 Wireless on/off + fn+up Brightness up + fn+down Brightness down + + I do not expect the Samsung features to work however I included them + just in case something could be done with them. The easy speedup manager + is supposed to toggle between low power mode, normal mode and high + performance mode. The wireless and brightness buttons are most important + for me. $ sudo input-events 5 /dev/input/event5 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 11:52:35.080222: EV_MSC code=4 value=28 11:52:35.080249: EV_KEY KEY_ENTER (0x1c) released 11:52:35.080254: EV_SYN code=0 value=0 + 17:16:20.258716: EV_MSC code=4 value=131 // battery gauge + 17:16:20.258754: EV_SYN code=0 value=0 + 17:17:31.738624: EV_MSC code=4 value=130 // crt/lcd toggle + 17:17:31.738669: EV_SYN code=0 value=0 + 17:18:47.673316: EV_MSC code=4 value=132 // backlight toggle + 17:18:47.673352: EV_SYN code=0 value=0 + 17:19:23.040102: EV_MSC code=4 value=179 // easy speedup manager + 17:19:23.040141: EV_SYN code=0 value=0 + 17:20:04.930854: EV_MSC code=4 value= // wireless toggle + 17:20:04.930894: EV_SYN code=0 value=0 11:52:36.370487: EV_MSC code=4 value=136 // brightness up 11:52:36.370527: EV_SYN code=0 value=0 11:52:37.660778: EV_MSC code=4 value=137 // brightness down 11:52:37.660816: EV_SYN code=0 value=0 - And also: + Please excuse the timestamps as I did the brightness keys earlier. Here + is the system info: $ lshal | grep system.hardware system.hardware.primary_video.product = 1768 (0x6e8) (int) system.hardware.primary_video.vendor = 4318 (0x10de) (int) system.hardware.product = 'R610' (string) system.hardware.serial = 'EY5793HQB00974' (string) system.hardware.uuid = 'C0974B31-D21D-B211-8000-D9D1D18FB64A' (string) system.hardware.vendor = 'SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.' (string) system.hardware.version = 'Not Applicable' (string) It is an nVidia graphics card also if that matters. ** Description changed: Binary package hint: hal-info Hopefully I've done this correctly after following the hotkeys troubleshooting guide at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Hotkeys/Troubleshooting A number of hotkeys on my Samsung R610 laptop do not work with Jaunty (they didn't work with Intrepid either). The keys that do not work are: fn+f2 Show battery gauge (Samsung specific feature) fn+f4 Switch between crt/lcd (haven't been able to test with external yet but the screen doesn't go black) fn+f5 Turn backlight on/off fn+f8 Easy speedup manager (Samsung specific feature) fn+f9 Wireless on/off fn+up Brightness up fn+down Brightness down I do not expect the Samsung features to work however I included them just in case something could be done with them. The easy speedup manager is supposed to toggle between low power mode, normal mode and high performance mode. The wireless and brightness buttons are most important for me. $ sudo input-events 5 /dev/input/event5 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 11:52:35.080222: EV_MSC code=4 value=28 11:52:35.080249: EV_KEY KEY_ENTER (0x1c) released 11:52:35.080254: EV_SYN code=0 value=0 17:16:20.258716: EV_MSC code=4 value=131 // battery gauge 17:16:20.258754: EV_SYN code=0 value=0 17:17:31.738624: EV_MSC code=4 value=130 // crt/lcd toggle 17:17:31.738669: EV_SYN code=0 value=0 17:18:47.673316: EV_MSC code=4 value=132 // backlight toggle 17:18:47.673352: EV_SYN code=0 value=0 17:19:23.040102: EV_MSC code=4 value=179 // easy speedup manager 17:19:23.040141: EV_SYN code=0 value=0 - 17:20:04.930854: EV_MSC code=4 value= // wireless toggle + 17:20:04.930854: EV_MSC code=4 value=134 // wireless toggle 17:20:04.930894: EV_SYN code=0 value=0 11:52:36.370487: EV_MSC code=4 value=136 // brightness up 11:52:36.370527: EV_SYN code=0 value=0 11:52:37.660778: EV_MSC code=4 value=137 // brightness down 11:52:37.660816: EV_SYN code=0 value=0 Please excuse the timestamps as I did the brightness keys earlier. Here is the system info: $ lshal | grep system.hardware system.hardware.primary_video.product = 1768 (0x6e8) (int) system.hardware.primary_video.vendor = 4318 (0x10de) (int) system.hardware.product = 'R610' (string) system.hardware.serial = 'EY5793HQB00974' (string) system.hardware.uuid = 'C0974B31-D21D-B211-8000-D9D1D18FB64A' (string) system.hardware.vendor = 'SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.' (string) system.hardware.version = 'Not Applicable' (string) It is an nVidia graphics card also if that matters. -- Some hotkeys don't work on Samsung R610 https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/356952 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
