From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; de; rv:1.8.1.5) Gecko/20070718 Fedora/2.0.0.5-1.fc7 Firefox/2.0.0.5 Description of problem: In Fedora8 test3, I can't no longer use the brightness adjust keys of my Toshiba Satellite Pro A100 laptop. Instead of being recognized as brightness change keys, Fn+F6/7 are recognized as regular F6/7 keys. This used to work fine with Fedora7's kernel 2.6.22.9-91 kernel. Adjusting the brightness itself (via writing to /proc/acpi/video/VGA/LCD/brightness) works fine, though. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Grab a Toshiba Satellite Pro A100 laptop 2. Press Fn+F6/7 3. Actual Results: Key code for F6 is entered (tilde appears in the console). Expected Results: Brightness of the LCD is changed. Additional info:
Is there anything in dmesg about unrecognized key scancodes?
(In reply to comment #1) > Is there anything in dmesg about unrecognized key scancodes? No, there isn't. As mentioned above, the Fn+F6/7 keys emit the normal F6/7 keycodes (64/65) in the 2.6.23 kernel; in the 2.6.22 kernel they don't emit any user-visible keycode.
Upstream bug report: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9262 Comment #10 contains a patch that's working fine and is supposed to be non-invasive.
FYI: There is another, somewhat related, upstream bug report: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9277. The patch in this bug fixes weird flickering with brightness-applet and gnome-power-manager being unable to set the brightness above 35% on Toshiba laptops.
(In reply to comment #3) > Upstream bug report: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9262 > Comment #10 contains a patch that's working fine and is supposed to be non-invasive. Final fix in CVS, in kernels after -80
kernel-2.6.23.9-85.fc8 has been pushed to the Fedora 8 testing repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report. If you want to test the update, you can install it with su -c 'yum --enablerepo=updates-testing update kernel'
kernel-2.6.23.9-85.fc8 has been pushed to the Fedora 8 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.