Asus A6U, two hotkeys not working

Many thanks for you bug.

Pliss read: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LaptopTestingTeam/HotkeyResearch
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Cristian Aravena

Thank you, Cristian.
As I said showkey doesn't give any output for these keys. The ACPI log does, however.
The disable touchpad key: hotkey ATKD 0000006b 00000005
The CD Player key: hotkey ATKD 0000004c 00000007

The disable touchpad key is supposed to disable/enable the touchpad for when you are typing. The CD Player key is supposed to open the software music player.

I'm sorry, but I am running breezy while checking these keycodes and "dmidecode -s" shows that -s is an invalid option. I will report these strings when I have installed the latest flight of dapper.

Brad,

Problem not is package hotkey-setup. Problem is in package acpi-support.

Many thanks,
Cristian

Hi Brad, I've added support for the Touchpad toggle in my local copy of 'acpi-support'.

The value you've reported for the PLAYCD action is the same as it already listed for EJECTCD. As they may look similar, could you confirm whether the existing EJECTCD would be the correct action?

Ping Brad.

Sorry, yes, that is correct Paul. It should be EJECTCD. My mistake

 acpi-support (0.64) dapper; urgency=low
 .
   * Add support for Asus A6U Touchpad toggle and CD player keys,
     [Malone #31063].

The changelog is actually slightly wrong as I forgot to update it when I carried the patch over.

It still isn't working. Tested on Flight 7.
I don't know if it has anything to do with this, but I ran "synclient -l" and got:
Can't access shared memory area. SHMConfig disabled?

Testing of this bug was blocked by the SHMConfig bug, but after applying the workaround to my xorg.conf in Dapper, I was able to disable my touchpad using the special key.
Thanks Paul

These two hotkeys are once again not working in Hardy Alpha 5

Is this symptom still reproducible in current 8.04 and/or 8.10 alpha?

Ping Brad

@ Daniel T Chen
Yes, it is (I have ASUS A6B00U). But for me more keys are not recognized by the showkey command - also "web browser" and "suspend" buttons don't give any output.

I forgot to mention - I use Hardy 8.04.1, fully updated. I have 8.10 on USB (as LiveCD), so I can check it if it would help. I don't use 8.10 on a regular basis due to a 'sis' driver bug in Xorg 7.4.

While acpi-support has historically handled translation of acpi events to input events, this model is considered deprecated in favor of either hal relaying the acpi event over dbus or a per-platform acpi kernel module translating the acpi event into an input event.

So this bug won't be fixed in the Ubuntu acpi-support package. I've instead opened a task on hal.

The 'disable touchpad' key currently doesn't work with acpi-support because it relies on the obsolete synclient command. The right command to toggle touchpads in 8.10 and above is xinput:

$ xinput set-int-prop <devnum> 'Device Enabled' 8 [0|1]

hal needs to be fixed to relay this event, and gnome-settings-daemon needs to be updated to handle it.

do you still get the issue in current jaunty?

Hi!

 I have asus a6m, and still got this problem.
Tested with the released livecd yesterday.

I will check the above hints too.

tested with:
sudo showkey -s

8.10:
only the power off button gives result:
0xe0 0x5e 0xe0 0xde

9.04:
the power off and the audio keys work, but other not:
suspend, e-mail, browser, disable touchpad

the issue is not a GNOME one

As written in <https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/acpi-support/+bug/31063/comments/16>, yes, there is a GNOME element to this bug.

As I changed my notebook and I will no longer use Hardy, I unsubscribed from this bug report.

outdated
http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/hal/