support of laptop: Dell Inspiron 3179 (keyboard problem)

[Andrej A Antonov]

problems with keyboard of laptop "Dell Inspiron 3179"

for four keys: Home, End, PgUp, PgDn. (all others keyboard-keys -- works good).

this keys -- only sends key-press events , but not sends key-release events.

(see https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu-certification/+question/406544 )

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this problem was solved -- via creating hwdb-file ( /etc/udev/hwdb.d/95-custom-keyboard.hwdb ):

    # Dell Inspiron 3179
    evdev:atkbd:dmi:bvn*:bvr*:bd*:svnDell*:pnInspiron*3179:pvr*
     KEYBOARD_KEY_c7=!home
     KEYBOARD_KEY_cf=!end
     KEYBOARD_KEY_c9=!pageup
     KEYBOARD_KEY_d1=!pagedown

(and hwdb re-index: sudo udevadm hwdb --update ; ... ; sudo udevadm trigger )

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thank you in advance!

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.10
Package: udev 231-9git1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.8.0-32.34-generic 4.8.11
Uname: Linux 4.8.0-32-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.3-0ubuntu8
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: Unity
Date: Mon Jan 9 22:49:32 2017
InstallationDate: Installed on 2017-01-09 (0 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 16.10 "Yakkety Yak" - Release amd64 (20161012.2)
MachineType: Dell Inc. Inspiron 3179
ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-4.8.0-32-generic.efi.signed root=UUID=499d474c-0f1e-484e-b0d0-9383520475db ro quiet splash vt.handoff=7
SourcePackage: systemd
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
dmi.bios.date: 08/31/2016
dmi.bios.vendor: Dell Inc.
dmi.bios.version: 1.0.3
dmi.board.name: 0WG9Y2
dmi.board.vendor: Dell Inc.
dmi.board.version: A00
dmi.chassis.type: 8
dmi.chassis.vendor: Dell Inc.
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnDellInc.:bvr1.0.3:bd08/31/2016:svnDellInc.:pnInspiron3179:pvr:rvnDellInc.:rn0WG9Y2:rvrA00:cvnDellInc.:ct8:cvr:
dmi.product.name: Inspiron 3179
dmi.sys.vendor: Dell Inc.

[dino99 (9d9)]

This is an unsupported release now. Please think to install the next LTS 'Bionic 18.04'

http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-next/daily-live/current/
https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2018/02/ubuntu-18-04-minimal-install-option

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

[Expired for systemd (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60 days.]