keyboard buttons for changing volume level stops working on asus eeepc 1005ha

Confirmed on a eeepc 1015pe.

Please start with the steps under the "Step-by-step Troubleshooting" section of the following wiki page. This will help determine what component is causing the problem.

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Hotkeys/Troubleshooting

Also provide the output of lsmod to see which kernel modules are loaded. Thanks!

xev (and showkey in console) doesn't show any code for Fn-F11. I think it's something with eeepc_laptop module, that don't load:
corvax@corvax-nb:~$ sudo modprobe eeepc-laptop
[sudo] password for corvax:
FATAL: Error inserting eeepc_laptop (/lib/modules/3.0-3-generic/kernel/drivers/platform/x86/eeepc-laptop.ko): No such device

Key press don't generate keycode...

Did you try the instructions from the "Fixing broken keys" section of /usr/share/doc/udev/README.keymap.txt.gz, as suggested in the wiki? What about acpi_listen?

Please run the following commands (you may need to run 'sudo apt-get install input-utils' first, if you haven't already):

  lsmod > lsmod.txt
  udevadm info --export-db > udev-db.txt
  cat /var/log/udev > udev.log
  lsinput > lsinput.txt

Then attach lsmod.txt, udev-db.txt, udev.log, and lsinput.txt to this bug report. Thanks!

Sorry, I forgeted to write that acpi_listen doesn't show anything. And
"/lib/udev/keymap -i input/event4" too.
And I was wrong: this netbok not Asus 1005HA, but 1005PE if it's important.

I see what's wrong. CONFIG_EEEPC_WMI was mistakenly disabled in oneiric due to some rejiggering in the Kconfig file. eeepc-wmi is the module you need, not eeepc_laptop.

I'm kicking off a test build now. It's end-of-day for me, so I'll post it tomorrow for verification.

Thanks, Seth. I hope it will help :)

The test build is available at:

http://people.canonical.com/~sforshee/lp805218/linux-3.0-3.4~lp805218v201107052231/

Please report back here whether or not this fixes your issue. Thanks!

Hello!
xev shows right events for Fn-keys:

 KeyRelease event, serial 41, synthetic NO, window 0x3800001,
   root 0xaa, subw 0x0, time 226120, (22,-10), root:(813,43),
   state 0x0, keycode 123 (keysym 0x1008ff13, XF86AudioRaiseVolume), same_screen YES,
   XLookupString gives 0 bytes:
   XFilterEvent returns: False

KeyPress event, serial 41, synthetic NO, window 0x3800001,
   root 0xaa, subw 0x0, time 227022, (22,-10), root:(813,43),
   state 0x0, keycode 121 (keysym 0x1008ff12, XF86AudioMute), same_screen YES,
   XLookupString gives 0 bytes:
   XmbLookupString gives 0 bytes:
   XFilterEvent returns: False

KeyRelease event, serial 41, synthetic NO, window 0x3800001,
   root 0xaa, subw 0x0, time 227022, (22,-10), root:(813,43),
   state 0x0, keycode 121 (keysym 0x1008ff12, XF86AudioMute), same_screen YES,
   XLookupString gives 0 bytes:
   XFilterEvent returns: False

corvax@corvax-nb:~$ lsmod|grep eee
eeepc_wmi 12685 0
asus_wmi 19333 1 eeepc_wmi

Now I need only find a method how to bind this keys for volume change in
new gnome3 with this awfull unity :-)

This bug was fixed in the package linux - 3.0.0-4.5

---------------
linux (3.0.0-4.5) oneiric; urgency=low

  [ Ming Lei ]

  * SAUCE: fix yama_ptracer_del lockdep warning
    - LP: #791019

  [ Seth Forshee ]

  * SAUCE: (drop after 3.0) asus-wmi: Add callback for hotkey filtering
  * SAUCE: (drop after 3.0) eeepc-wmi: Add support for T101MT Home/Express Gate key
  * SAUCE: (drop after 3.0) asus-wmi: Enable autorepeat for hotkey input device
  * [Config] CONFIG_{ASUS,ASUS_NB,EEEPC}_WMI=m
    - LP: #805218

  [ Tim Gardner ]

  * [Config] updateconfigs after rebase to -rc6+
    Rebased against 4dd1b49c6d215dc41ce50c80b4868388b93f31a3
  * Adopt a 3 digit verion, e.g., 3.0.0-x.x
  * Revert "UBUNTU: add dependancies for module-init-tools"
    This dependency is no longer required for a 3 digit version.
 -- Tim Gardner <email address hidden> Tue, 05 Jul 2011 14:03:04 +0100

With linux - 3.0.0-4.5 keycodes works correctly, but volume changing by keys don't work yet. I tried redefine audio keys In Settings-> Keyboard application and shotcuts was assigned right, but panel applet don't catch this hotkeys.

That's a desktop issue. You can try the following first (from https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Hotkeys/Troubleshooting):

for audio volume control hotkeys, gnome-sound-properties may be misconfigured. You can either examine with gconf-editor '/desktop/gnome/sound' or do 'gconftool --recursive-list /desktop/gnome/sound' to get the current settings; the particular configuration items are 'default_mixer_tracks' and 'default_mixer_device'.

If everything looks good there then we probably need a new task, I'm just not sure against what package. Maybe gnome-sound-properties?

Seth, it's ok already. Fixed in https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-settings-daemon/+bug/805908
This bug may be closed now, thanks!