Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 971462
Hotkeys not working with kernel 3.9
Last modified: 2013-09-19 09:43:57 EDT
After switching from kernel 3.8 to kernel 3.9, hotkeys (volume, touchpad toggle, wifi hardware on/off...) stopped working and OSD doesn't appear. Wifi hardware on/off hotkey (fn+F2 on my laptop) is the only key combination which still works, but silently, without on screen display.
I had the same problem. Switching from kernel 3.9.4 to 3.9.2 solves the issue. The laptop is an Asus Zenbook Prime UX31A.
Luca, what laptop? Do any of the 3.9.y kernel updates work? Can you attach the dmesg from both a working and failing kernel?
No, none of the 3.9.x kernels (except 3.9.2) have worked. I'll attach the dmesg output from my working 3.9.2 kernel, and from the latest failing kernel update (3.9.6).
Created attachment 768129 [details] dmesg ouput from working kernel (3.9.2)
Created attachment 768130 [details] dmesg output from failing kernel (3.9.6)
The bug is still present in Fedora 19, using kernel 3.9.8.
(In reply to Josh Boyer from comment #2) > Luca, what laptop? Do any of the 3.9.y kernel updates work? Can you attach > the dmesg from both a working and failing kernel? Sorry Josh, I was in honeymoon :) Luckily Hannes answered your request. I can also confirm that the bug is still present in Fedora 19.
Same problem here with my new Asus Zenbook ux32vd-r4020h. Newly installed Fedora 19, kernel upgraded to 3.9.9 with Yum. fn + F1 (sleep) => Works fn + F2 (activate/deactivate Wifi) => Doesn't work fn + F3 (decrease keyboard backlight) => Doesn't work fn + F4 (increase keyboard backlight) => Doesn't work fn + F5 (decrease brightness) => Doesn't work fn + F6 (increase brightness) => Doesn't work fn + F7 (activate/deactivate screen) => Works fn + F8 => Not tested fn + F9 (activate/deactivate touchpad) => Doesn't work fn + F10 (mute sound) => Works fn + F11 (decrease volume) => Works fn + F12 (increase volume) => Works
Back at work after a couple of weeks of holidays. Updated the laptop with latest kernel (3.10.9-200.fc19.x86_64) and everything seems to work again. I'm closing the bug, but feel free to reopen it in case your system is still broken.
Nope, kernel 3.10.9-200 does not solve my problem. Brightness keys work, but there is a substantial delay from key is pressed until it has effect and the OSD (Gnome) shows. Other keys (volume, keyboard backlight, ...) does NOT work. I see this message is in the output of journalctl: asus-nb-wmi: probe of asus-nb-wmi failed with error -5 If I do a manual modprobe of asus-nb-wmi then the keys start to react when pressed, but they have a random function. I.e. pressing fn+Volume_up can produce anything from mute, volume down, brightness increase, ... Something is really strange.
Sadly I have to rectify. Today the fn shortcuts aren't working anymore. Same kernel... Maybe it is not the actual culprit. PS: I cannot change the bug status back to NEW, but only to ASSIGNED.
Hi, I just created the account to report that I have the same problem with the brightness hotkey on a Dell Inspiron 15r 5521. I'm running Slackware 14 64bit with kernel 3.10.9 built with config-huge configuration from slackware.com. The other hotkeys, volume, wifi, seems working. Ask if you need files o logs. Luca
Created attachment 795712 [details] Kernel 3.10.9 configuration file on Slackware 14.
*********** MASS BUG UPDATE ************** We apologize for the inconvenience. There is a large number of bugs to go through and several of them have gone stale. Due to this, we are doing a mass bug update across all of the Fedora 19 kernel bugs. Fedora 19 has now been rebased to 3.11.1-200.fc19. Please test this kernel update and let us know if you issue has been resolved or if it is still present with the newer kernel. If you experience different issues, please open a new bug report for those.
Yes! 3.11.1-200 solved the issue for me. Thanks!
Thanks for letting us know.