Comment 31 for bug 267682

On Fri, Sep 12, 2008 at 10:21:55PM -0000, Bryce Harrington wrote:
> Some further data. slangasek and I got together downtown to look at his
> keyboard issue, which is the same thinkpad model as mdz's. His
> particular symptoms are that the sleep key works one time, and then not
> after that. Looking into this, we found that at the kernel level, it
> prints the correct keycode once to /proc/acpi/event, and then nothing
> after that. Unloading the thinkpad-acpi kernel module and re-modprobing
> it causes the behavior to reset, with the key printed one time again.
> The /etc/acpi/sleepbtn.sh script does get called, but the machine does
> not sleep.

This is normal and expected; it won't emit the same ACPI event twice in
rapid succession.

> Pitti and I (on Dells) are not seeing this particular bug, but are
> seeing something different, where the keys are showing up as mapped, but
> the functionality (sleep, battery, etc.) are not getting triggered. I
> do not find evidence that /etc/acpi/sleepbtn.sh is getting called.

This is what I see in my session, though they work in a guest session.

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 - mdz