Bug 490100

Summary: Brightness shortcut keys broken
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Michael Monreal <michael.monreal>
Component: gnome-power-managerAssignee: Richard Hughes <richard>
Status: CLOSED WONTFIX QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version: 16CC: chad.sawatzky, collura, ferrazrafael, hristozov, pahan, richard
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Description Michael Monreal 2009-03-13 09:26:36 UTC
The brightness control keys (Fn-F10 / Fn-F11) stopped working on my RawHide test system. Brightness control itself works (using g-p-m settings window) and other Fn keys (volume) still work.

Comment 1 Richard Hughes 2009-03-16 13:35:46 UTC
Do you get the correct events in xev?

Comment 2 Michael Monreal 2009-03-16 22:07:52 UTC
Eh... this appears to have fixed itself already. Closing...

Comment 3 Michael Monreal 2009-04-29 13:39:42 UTC
With recent Rawhide I got the same problem again (brightness control works from the g-p-m prefs window but not with the shortcut keys), so reopening...

I also tested with the new F11Preview LiveCD: same thing.

>> Do you get the correct events in xev?
No, there's no event for Fn-F10/Fn-F11 anymore. Fn-F1/Fn-F2 etc on the other hand still work fine.

Comment 4 Georgi Hristozov 2009-05-12 17:07:36 UTC
I'm having exactly the same problem with the Fn-F6 and Fn-F7 keys on the 32 bit Rawhide, using Toshiba Satellite A200. Xev doesn't seem to catch any event. The volume "scroll" seems to be ok.

Comment 5 Bug Zapper 2009-06-09 12:13:14 UTC
This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 11 development cycle.
Changing version to '11'.

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Comment 6 Michael Monreal 2009-07-27 11:26:55 UTC
Still the same in current F11+Updates.

What would cause those keys not to emmit events anymore? Is it a Kernel or Xorg bug?

Comment 7 Georgi Hristozov 2009-07-30 20:42:39 UTC
The situation is the same on rawhide and the version needs to be changed. Thanks in advance!

Comment 8 Michael Monreal 2009-08-10 19:19:56 UTC
During my LiveCD tests I verified that on...

Fedora  9 Live -> works
Fedora 10 Live -> works
Fedora 11 Live -> does not work

So this really broke during F10->F11 development

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Comment 10 Pavel Alexeev 2010-04-27 15:47:11 UTC
Brightness adjustment still does not work.

Comment 11 Rafael Louback Ferraz 2010-10-06 21:28:42 UTC
Still does not work in fc13

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Comment 13 Rafael Louback Ferraz 2011-06-02 18:31:17 UTC
still doesnt working on F15, please change version

Comment 14 Rafael Louback Ferraz 2012-03-26 17:03:30 UTC
not working on F16 kernel 3.3, please change version

Comment 15 Pavel Alexeev 2012-04-01 08:33:47 UTC
Just change version by request of Rafael.

Comment 16 Rafael Louback Ferraz 2012-04-25 13:55:40 UTC
Maybe this help to fix this bug

http://askubuntu.com/questions/39391/adjusting-brightness-on-dell-vostro-3500-wont-work

Comment 17 Rafael Louback Ferraz 2012-08-31 23:30:01 UTC
There is any other place I should report this bug? After all this bug is 3 years old and nothing was done about it.

Its a good idea to report it on gnome too?

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