I have just joined the club. I've had my Lenovo U300S for nearly a year now and only yesterday, for the first time, have I experienced the bug. I have a dual-boot windows/ubuntu. The bug is definitely in the bios since it affects both os. In my case, the letter t is remapped to F9 (because I'm on dvorak, it's actually the letter y). The same remapping on windows and ubuntu.
As a workaround, I have remapped the keys. On Windows I use Sharpkeys, a simple freeware which modifies the registry. On Kubuntu, I have used $ xmodmap -e "keycode 75 = y" The problem started after ... I flashed the bios. I flashed the bios because all of a sudden some of the function keys started to go. I couldn't access most of the function keys between F7 and F12, including the wireless switch and the brightness keys. After flashing the bios, the function keys started working again. But that's when I lost the letter t. And I seem to have lost it for good. I had flashed with the latest bios, 56cn38ww. After detecting the problems, I downdated the bios, but that didn't help. I still have a windows partition so I flashed the bios within windows. In case you're wondering, to downdate in windows, you can execute a bat file with the following line of text: C:\BIOS\56cn43ww\WinFlash.exe /NODATE C:\BIOS\56cn43ww\56CN43WW.ROM where you should check that the paths are consistent with your setup. Now for all intent and purposes my laptop is working since I have remapped the t-key and I don't care much for F9. But I don't like it no I don't Mr Lenovo! I'm going to try to drain the battery. I'll get back to you if I learn anything interesting. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/974455 Title: Lenovo u300s 't' key sends "Hiragana-Katana" To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/974455/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
