There is already an upstream patch for this and other buttons. I believe it's scheduled for release in 2.6.38.
On 19 January 2011 05:32, Andy Whitcroft <[email protected]> wrote: > That patch looks promising. It probabally should be sent upstream for > review. The maintainers for the sony-laptop driver can be found here: > > M: Mattia Dongili <[email protected]> > L: [email protected] > > -- > You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber > of the bug. > https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/695919 > > Title: > Sony F series "assist" and "vaio" buttons not recognized by sony- > laptop > > Status in “linux” package in Ubuntu: > New > > Bug description: > The "assist" and "vaio" buttons on Sony Vaio F series laptops are not > recognized (although ACPI events are still sent). > > In checking dmesg, I receive the following errors: > > For the assist button: > [84044.545156] sony-laptop: Unknown event: 0x100 0xa6 > [84044.946497] sony-laptop: Unknown event: 0x100 0x26 > > For the Vaio button: > [84119.820688] sony-laptop: Unknown event: 0x100 0xa5 > [84119.940642] sony-laptop: Unknown event: 0x100 0x25 > > These are consistent with a keypress and a key release. > > I have included a patch to sony-laptop.c (contained in > drivers/platform/x86 in the Linux source). This patch was written for > 2.6.35, but works on 2.6.37 (downloaded tonight from > http://packages.ubuntu.com/natty/linux-source-2.6.37). > > To unsubscribe from this bug, go to: > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/695919/+subscribe > -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/695919 Title: Sony F series "assist" and "vaio" buttons not recognized by sony- laptop -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
