Bug 467109

Summary: fn key on XO mapped wierdly -- works but generates extra character
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Jack Spaar <jspaar>
Component: kernelAssignee: Kernel Maintainer List <kernel-maint>
Status: CLOSED WONTFIX QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version: 10CC: kernel-maint, maurizio.antillon
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Description Jack Spaar 2008-10-15 19:15:40 UTC
Description of problem: Pressing Fn key on XO 
generates unwanted extra characters.  When pressed in combination with arrow keys (to produce home/end or pgup/pgdown), the correct output is generated as well as an extra unwanted character.


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
kernel: 2.6.27-1.fc10.i686
F10-Snap1-i686-Live.iso

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Press fn key, alone or in combination with an arrow key
2. 
3.
  
Actual results:
Outputs spurious extra character.
On console without X running, extra character appears as "~".
If fn is pressed in combination with left-arrow to produce the Home key, the appropriate home-key action happens along with an extra "~" character.  (e.g., at the shell command line, Home will return cursor to beginning of the line, while also inserting an unwanted "~".)  Some goes for End, PgUp, and PgDown.

With X running, the same behaviour is seen, but extra character appears as "=".

Expected results:
Output only Home, End, PgUp, or PgDown, with no extra characters.

Additional info:
Unlike pressing the game pad keys on the XO, no "atkbd.c: Unknown key pressed" errors are generated for the fn key and its combinations.

Comment 1 Bug Zapper 2008-11-26 03:54:23 UTC
This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 10 development cycle.
Changing version to '10'.

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Comment 2 Bug Zapper 2009-11-18 08:35:03 UTC
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Comment 3 Bug Zapper 2009-12-18 06:35:08 UTC
Fedora 10 changed to end-of-life (EOL) status on 2009-12-17. Fedora 10 is 
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