Broken hotkeys on HP Pavilion dv6500 laptop

[Nick B.]

There are two hotkeys on the HP Pavilion dv6500 series of laptops. The Quick Play and DVD buttons. Previously hotkey-setup was responsible for mapping these keys, but now it looks like hal is mapping these keys. But it's broken.

Line 21 of /usr/share/hal/fdi/information/10freedesktop/30-keymap-hp.fdi
<append key="input.keymap.data" type="strlist">e008:player</append> <!-- FIXME: quick play -->

and the line for the DVD button looks ok but it doesn't seem to be working either.
<append key="input.keymap.data" type="strlist">e00e:dvd</append> <!-- dvd -->

I've tried substituting different keycodes and restarting hal without any success. As a workaround to get these keys working I've put /etc/init.d/hotkey-setup start in /etc/rc.local
Both of these buttons previously worked fine in Hardy.

hal:
  Installed: 0.5.11-4ubuntu3
  Candidate: 0.5.11-4ubuntu3
  Version table:
 *** 0.5.11-4ubuntu3 0
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com intrepid/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

[أحمد المحمودي (Ahmed El-Mahmoudy) (aelmahmoudy)]

Hello,

  My problem is that after I upgraded to intrepid, hot keys do not work anymore, Fn+F3 used to start firefox, Fn+F1 used to bring up some help window. Those do not work anymore. I had a look at the changelog, does that bug have to do with switching to kbd ?!

Note, I tried /etc/init.d/hotkey start and restart, same thing, keys not working

[أحمد المحمودي (Ahmed El-Mahmoudy) (aelmahmoudy)]

I also got hotkey-setup_0.1-23ubuntu5

[أحمد المحمودي (Ahmed El-Mahmoudy) (aelmahmoudy)]

Hello,

  I just found out that I was mistaken, I opened the Preferences->Keyboard shortcuts, and found that the key to start the browser was XF86WWW, so I tried to change it, after pressing Fn+F3, the key changed to XF86HomePage, so it seems that the key name changed in Intrepid or so. As for Fn+F1, I found that it was disabled.

Matter of fact, I find it better in Intrepid, the Fn+F7/F8 (for controlling the brightness) never worked in console, now they do ! I hope the volume buttons too would work in console ! So sorry for the false bug report.

[Nick B. (futurepilot)]

This looks more like a hal bug.

[vussvillem (vussvillem)]

I have Dell D600. Hotkeys were working fine in Hardy until recently. Now DVD eject button is not working unless I do "sudo /etc/init.d/hotkey-setup start". All other hotkeys (suspend, wifi, battery, LCD brightness, volume) are working fine.

[aldebx (aldebx)]

confirmed at this thread: http://aldeby.org/blog/index.php/en-hp-pavilion-multimedia-buttons-configuration-under-linux-linux-quickplay.html

[jiaguilera (jiaguilera)]

maybe hp-wmi kernel driver is compiled as a module... i have tried:

# modprobe hp-wmi

on hp pavilion dv5120us and buttons are working now.
Add this module to startup list, this may help.

[Nick B. (futurepilot)]

jiaguilera wrote:
> maybe hp-wmi kernel driver is compiled as a module... i have tried:
>
> # modprobe hp-wmi
>
> on hp pavilion dv5120us and buttons are working now.
> Add this module to startup list, this may help.
>
>
I tried that but apparently it was already loaded so it did nothing.
Keys are still dead until I manually restart hotkey-setup.

[Vladimir (vladimir-kozlov)]

On Intrepid 64bit with 2.6.27-11-generic on HP Pavilion dv5 the wifi button does not work. It even does not generate any keycode (checked using xev). All other buttons seems to work.

[Nick B. (futurepilot)]

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[Fractal (guillaume-brunerie)]

I have an HP dv6500 laptop, and I can confirm that the DVD key doesn't work.
Following this page (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Hotkeys/Troubleshooting) this is a bug in hal because the keycode is greater than 255.
Indeed, xev cannot detect anything, but input-events do :

$ sudo input-events 5

/dev/input/event5
   bustype : BUS_I8042
   vendor : 0x1
   product : 0x1
   version : 43841
   name : "AT Translated Set 2 keyboard"
   phys : "isa0060/serio0/input0"
   bits ev : EV_SYN EV_KEY EV_MSC EV_LED EV_REP

waiting for events
[...]
00:36:48.717739: EV_MSC code=4 value=142
00:36:48.717758: EV_KEY KEY_DVD (0x185) pressed
00:36:48.717763: EV_SYN code=0 value=0
00:36:48.727695: EV_MSC code=4 value=142
00:36:48.727706: EV_KEY KEY_DVD (0x185) released
00:36:48.727710: EV_SYN code=0 value=0
[...]

and you can see that the keycode is 0x185 > 0xFF.

[gali98 (korylp)]

I have the exact problem as the user above. I have an HP Pavillion TX2000Z.
Here is some of the suggested attachments mentioned at the wiki.
Thanks,
Kory
Note: This key worked fine in Hardy and Intrepid after running hotkey-setup, but it no longer works no matter what.

[jorno (jorn-odberg)]

Like Fractal said in comment #11 , I have the same problem on my HP Pavilion TX2690.
I have four buttons to the right of my screen. "DVD", "Media", "Rotate" and "Next page (or something)"...

The "Next page"-button is wrongfully identified as "Media", but it works.
The "DVD"-button is not identified in Gnome, so I cannot map it to anything. But "input-events 5" identifies it.
------
jorno@jorn-laptop:~$ sudo input-events 5
/dev/input/event5
   bustype : BUS_I8042
   vendor : 0x1
   product : 0x1
   version : 43841
   name : "AT Translated Set 2 keyboard"
   phys : "isa0060/serio0/input0"
   bits ev : EV_SYN EV_KEY EV_MSC EV_LED EV_REP

waiting for events
00:22:45.408909: EV_MSC code=4 value=142
00:22:45.408953: EV_KEY KEY_DVD (0x185) pressed
00:22:45.408963: EV_SYN code=0 value=0
------
The "Rotate"-button is not identified with this command. And neither is the "Media"-button (The button which _really_ is the Media-button).

Kind regards from Norway.
// Jørn

[Steve Langasek (vorlon)]

Closing the hotkey-setup task, this package is obsolete.

A component such as hal will have to map such extended keys to signals that desktop applications can listen for, since there's no way for X to carry them as keycodes in the current model.

[dino99 (9d9)]

http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/hal/