Public bug reported:
Hi everybody,
I've just bought a brand new laptop acer emachines G725 and installed
kubuntu 9.04 64 bit desktop version on it. Everything worked out of the
box, except hotkeys. Some of them are working (volume up,volume down,
sleep, turn of monitor), while some of them don't work (brigthness up,
brightness down, play/pause, backward, forward). I don't care much for
those multimedia keys, but I would really like to make my brightness
keys (Fn+Arrow Left/Right) working, since my eyes hurt. What I tried to
do so far is... First I tried to install acerhk module, but found out
that it is not compatible with 64 bit kernel, next I found aceracpi,
which should work in 64 bit, so I downloaded it, but were not able to
compile it.
arc...@stol:~/Acer_acpi/acer_acpi-0.11.2$ sudo make
make -C /lib/modules/`uname -r`/build SUBDIRS= modules
make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.28-15-generic'
CHK include/linux/version.h
CHK include/linux/utsrelease.h
SYMLINK include/asm -> include/asm-x86
make[2]: *** No rule to make target `kernel/bounds.c', needed by
`kernel/bounds.s'. Stop.
make[1]: *** [prepare0] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.28-15-generic'
make: *** [wmi-acer.ko] Error 2
arc...@stol:~/Acer_acpi/acer_acpi-0.11.2$
I have kernel headers and kernel source installed so this should not be the
problem. I use this kernel.
arc...@stol:~/Acer_acpi/acer_acpi-0.11.2$ uname -a
Linux Stol 2.6.28-15-generic #49-Ubuntu SMP Tue Aug 18 19:25:34 UTC 2009 x86_64
GNU/Linux
Next I found out that acer-wmi is some kind of replacement for aceracpi
so I tried to modeprobe this module, but no luck either.
arc...@stol:~$ sudo modprobe acer-wmi
[sudo] password for arcull:
FATAL: Error inserting acer_wmi
(/lib/modules/2.6.28-15-generic/kernel/drivers/misc/acer-wmi.ko): No such device
Which should mean that my laptop model isn't compatible with this module
:( Further I tried to check if my keycodes are maped correctly so I did
a little testing which should confirm that they are ok.
arc...@stol:~$ xev |grep keycode
state 0x0, keycode 36 (keysym 0xff0d, Return), same_screen YES,
state 0x0, keycode 120 (keysym 0x0, NoSymbol), same_screen YES,
state 0x0, keycode 120 (keysym 0x0, NoSymbol), same_screen YES,
request MappingKeyboard, first_keycode 8, count 248
request MappingKeyboard, first_keycode 8, count 247
state 0x0, keycode 232 (keysym 0x1008ff03, XF86MonBrightnessDown),
same_screen YES,
state 0x0, keycode 232 (keysym 0x1008ff03, XF86MonBrightnessDown),
same_screen YES,
request MappingKeyboard, first_keycode 8, count 248
request MappingKeyboard, first_keycode 8, count 247
state 0x0, keycode 126 (keysym 0xb1, plusminus), same_screen YES,
state 0x0, keycode 126 (keysym 0xb1, plusminus), same_screen YES,
request MappingKeyboard, first_keycode 8, count 248
request MappingKeyboard, first_keycode 8, count 247
state 0x0, keycode 233 (keysym 0x1008ff02, XF86MonBrightnessUp),
same_screen YES,
state 0x0, keycode 233 (keysym 0x1008ff02, XF86MonBrightnessUp),
same_screen YES,
I did test it with HAL as well
arc...@stol:~$ lshal -m
Start monitoring devicelist:
-------------------------------------------------
^...@11:51:41.925: computer_logicaldev_input_0 condition ButtonPressed =
brightness-down
±11:51:43.630: computer_logicaldev_input_0 condition ButtonPressed =
brightness-up
A strange thing that I can't explain is the mapping in
/usr/include/linux/input.h where I found
#define KEY_BRIGHTNESSDOWN 224
#define KEY_BRIGHTNESSUP 225
Here is my hw.
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile 4 Series Chipset Memory
Controller Hub (rev 09)
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Mobile 4 Series Chipset
Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 09)
00:02.1 Display controller: Intel Corporation Mobile 4 Series Chipset
Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 09)
00:1a.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI
Controller #4 (rev 03)
00:1a.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB2 EHCI
Controller #2 (rev 03)
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) HD Audio
Controller (rev 03)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) PCI Express Port 1
(rev 03)
00:1c.1 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) PCI Express Port 2
(rev 03)
00:1c.2 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) PCI Express Port 3
(rev 03)
00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI
Controller #1 (rev 03)
00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI
Controller #2 (rev 03)
00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI
Controller #3 (rev 03)
00:1d.3 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI
Controller #6 (rev 03)
00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB2 EHCI
Controller #1 (rev 03)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev 93)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation ICH9M LPC Interface Controller (rev 03)
00:1f.2 SATA controller: Intel Corporation ICH9M/M-E SATA AHCI Controller (rev
03)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) SMBus Controller (rev 03)
04:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4312 802.11b/g (rev 01)
05:00.0 Ethernet controller: Attansic Technology Corp. Device 1062 (rev c0)
I did also notice that values in /proc/acpi/video/OVGA/DD03/brightness
do change when I press the key combination to change brightness, but
somehow hardware doesn't seem to respond correctly. The only clumsy
workaround to change my brightness is to press Ecs key on boot time to
enter grub menu, and while I am there my key combinations to change
brightness work, but once the kubuntu starts to load, they cease to
respond. I did also try to use some live cds with newer kernel (suse
11.2 milestone 6, FC 11) but no luck with them either. I am thinking of
finding the way to tell the kernel somehow to leave my key combinations
for brightness alone and let the bios take care of them. I don't know if
this is even possible and how could I do that. Anyway, I am not much
experienced linux user, but will try to do my best with you help to find
a solution to my problem. Thanks in advance for your help
** Affects: ubuntu
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Description changed:
Hi everybody,
I've just bought a brand new laptop acer emachines G725 and installed
kubuntu 9.04 64 bit desktop version on it. Everything worked out of the
box, except hotkeys. Some of them are working (volume up,volume down,
sleep, turn of monitor), while some of them don't work (brigthness up,
brightness down, play/pause, backward, forward). I don't care much for
those multimedia keys, but I would really like to make my brightness
keys (Fn+Arrow Left/Right) working, since my eyes hurt. What I tried to
do so far is... First I tried to install acerhk module, but found out
that it is not compatible with 64 bit kernel, next I found aceracpi,
which should work in 64 bit, so I downloaded it, but were not able to
compile it.
arc...@stol:~/Acer_acpi/acer_acpi-0.11.2$ sudo make
make -C /lib/modules/`uname -r`/build SUBDIRS= modules
make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.28-15-generic'
CHK include/linux/version.h
CHK include/linux/utsrelease.h
SYMLINK include/asm -> include/asm-x86
make[2]: *** No rule to make target `kernel/bounds.c', needed by
`kernel/bounds.s'. Stop.
make[1]: *** [prepare0] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.28-15-generic'
make: *** [wmi-acer.ko] Error 2
arc...@stol:~/Acer_acpi/acer_acpi-0.11.2$
I have kernel headers and kernel source installed so this should not be the
problem. I use this kernel.
arc...@stol:~/Acer_acpi/acer_acpi-0.11.2$ uname -a
Linux Stol 2.6.28-15-generic #49-Ubuntu SMP Tue Aug 18 19:25:34 UTC 2009
x86_64 GNU/Linux
Next I found out that acer-wmi is some kind of replacement for aceracpi
- so I tried to modeprobe this modul, but no luck either.
+ so I tried to modeprobe this module, but no luck either.
arc...@stol:~$ sudo modprobe acer-wmi
[sudo] password for arcull:
FATAL: Error inserting acer_wmi
(/lib/modules/2.6.28-15-generic/kernel/drivers/misc/acer-wmi.ko): No such device
Which should mean that my laptop model isn't compatible with this module
:( Further I tried to check if my keycodes are maped correctly so I did
a little testing which should confirm that they are ok.
arc...@stol:~$ xev |grep keycode
state 0x0, keycode 36 (keysym 0xff0d, Return), same_screen YES,
state 0x0, keycode 120 (keysym 0x0, NoSymbol), same_screen YES,
state 0x0, keycode 120 (keysym 0x0, NoSymbol), same_screen YES,
request MappingKeyboard, first_keycode 8, count 248
request MappingKeyboard, first_keycode 8, count 247
state 0x0, keycode 232 (keysym 0x1008ff03, XF86MonBrightnessDown),
same_screen YES,
state 0x0, keycode 232 (keysym 0x1008ff03, XF86MonBrightnessDown),
same_screen YES,
request MappingKeyboard, first_keycode 8, count 248
request MappingKeyboard, first_keycode 8, count 247
state 0x0, keycode 126 (keysym 0xb1, plusminus), same_screen YES,
state 0x0, keycode 126 (keysym 0xb1, plusminus), same_screen YES,
request MappingKeyboard, first_keycode 8, count 248
request MappingKeyboard, first_keycode 8, count 247
state 0x0, keycode 233 (keysym 0x1008ff02, XF86MonBrightnessUp),
same_screen YES,
state 0x0, keycode 233 (keysym 0x1008ff02, XF86MonBrightnessUp),
same_screen YES,
I did test it with HAL as well
arc...@stol:~$ lshal -m
Start monitoring devicelist:
-------------------------------------------------
^...@11:51:41.925: computer_logicaldev_input_0 condition ButtonPressed =
brightness-down
±11:51:43.630: computer_logicaldev_input_0 condition ButtonPressed =
brightness-up
A strange thing that I can't explain is the mapping in
/usr/include/linux/input.h where I found
#define KEY_BRIGHTNESSDOWN 224
#define KEY_BRIGHTNESSUP 225
Here is my hw.
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile 4 Series Chipset Memory
Controller Hub (rev 09)
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Mobile 4 Series Chipset
Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 09)
00:02.1 Display controller: Intel Corporation Mobile 4 Series Chipset
Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 09)
00:1a.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI
Controller #4 (rev 03)
00:1a.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB2 EHCI
Controller #2 (rev 03)
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) HD Audio
Controller (rev 03)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) PCI Express Port 1
(rev 03)
00:1c.1 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) PCI Express Port 2
(rev 03)
00:1c.2 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) PCI Express Port 3
(rev 03)
00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI
Controller #1 (rev 03)
00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI
Controller #2 (rev 03)
00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI
Controller #3 (rev 03)
00:1d.3 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI
Controller #6 (rev 03)
00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB2 EHCI
Controller #1 (rev 03)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev 93)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation ICH9M LPC Interface Controller (rev 03)
00:1f.2 SATA controller: Intel Corporation ICH9M/M-E SATA AHCI Controller
(rev 03)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) SMBus Controller (rev
03)
04:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4312 802.11b/g (rev 01)
05:00.0 Ethernet controller: Attansic Technology Corp. Device 1062 (rev c0)
I did also notice that values in /proc/acpi/video/OVGA/DD03/brightness
do change when I press the key combination to change brightness, but
somehow hardware doesn't seem to respond correctly. The only clumsy
workaround to change my brightness is to press Ecs key on boot time to
enter grub menu, and while I am there my key combinations to change
brightness work, but once the kubuntu starts to load, they cease to
respond. I did also try to use some live cds with newer kernel (suse
11.2 milestone 6, FC 11) but no luck with them either. I am thinking of
finding the way to tell the kernel somehow to leave my key combinations
for brightness alone and let the bios take care of them. I don't know if
this is even possible and how could I do that. Anyway, I am not much
experienced linux user, but will try to do my best with you help to find
a solution to my problem. Thanks in advance for your help
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brightness hotkeys not working on acer g725
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/428790
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