Bug 887580

Summary: Display select button acts as "p"
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Aleksander Zdyb <o_ojo>
Component: acpidAssignee: Jaroslav Škarvada <jskarvad>
Status: CLOSED WONTFIX QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version: 17CC: jskarvad, ted
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Last Closed: 2013-08-01 01:54:50 UTC Type: Bug
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lspci -vv
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dmidecode none

Description Aleksander Zdyb 2012-12-16 14:56:12 UTC 
Description of problem:
I cannot use my laptop's display toggle button to to switch between internal and external display. The machine is Dell Inspiron 17R 7720.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
kernel-3.6.10-2.fc17.x86_64

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Just press Fn+F1
  
Actual results:
Nothing happens. At least to display. In text editors "p" is printed.


Expected results:
Cycle through several display modes (external display, internal display, both, etc.)


Additional info:
xev shows indeed, that the button act as letter "p".
Other Fn buttons (brightness, media player, wireless switch, etc.) work as expected

The laptop came with Ubuntu preinstalled and the button worked well on that distribution.
Comment 1 Jaroslav Škarvada 2013-03-18 09:21:42 UTC 
Could you provide more data, what is your video HW/driver? E.g.:
# lspci -vv
# dmidecode
# dmesg
Comment 2 Aleksander Zdyb 2013-03-19 14:25:07 UTC 
Created attachment 712702 [details]
lspci -vv
Comment 3 Aleksander Zdyb 2013-03-19 14:25:49 UTC 
Created attachment 712703 [details]
dmidecode
Comment 4 Aleksander Zdyb 2013-03-19 14:29:43 UTC 
Posted lspci -vv and dmidecode.
I cannot post whole dmesg output. Would you provide a grep statement, which reveals only required information, please?
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