[intrepid] Media Keys on Dell XPS M1210 Laptop not working

[Aanjhan Ranganathan]

I just upgraded to Intrepid Beta and found that the Media keys on my laptop, like the Vol up/Dn, Play, Pause does not work anymore. Please let me know what more information you would require. These keys were funtioning flawlessly from the time I installed Ubuntu on this machine more than a year back :-)

Thanks.

[Pete Deremer (sportman1280-deactivatedaccount)]

Same issue with my Dell Inspiron E1705. They work in Hardy, but not in Intrepid. I also will provide any information you would need, but not sure where to start.

[Leann Ogasawara (leannogasawara)]

Hi Guys,

This looks like it might possibly be related to (or a duplicate of) bug 269951 and bug 278839 . Care to take a look.

[Han Chung (han+c)]

All the media and Fn+F# keys work for my laptop(same as bug reporter's, a Dell XPS M1210), EXCEPT the Fn+F1 (Hibernate), Fn+F5 (Scroll Lock) key combos.

[Han Chung (han+c)]

Forgot to mention that the battery info key (Fn+F3) also doesn't work, all the keys worked perfectly on Ubuntu 8.04.1 AMD64.

[Peter Kerekfy (kerekfyp)]

Hi!

Could you please post the output of the following command:

ls -l /etc/rc*.d/S*hotkey-setup

Then please try this:

sudo mv /etc/rc2.d/S20hotkey-setup /etc/rc2.d/S29hotkey-setup

Reboot, then test your hotkeys again. This worked for me.

[Mario Limonciello (superm1)]

Can someone please test this on a fully updated Jaunty installation? The architecture for all hotkeys has been properly defined and implemented recently in Jaunty, so it is expected that everything working there.

[Martin Pitt (pitti)]

If you still have trouble in current intrepid (with -updates) or jaunty, can you please do the steps in https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Hotkeys/Troubleshooting to find out how the keymap in hal-info should be done? We need a scan code -> key symbol mapping, e. g. "130 -> brightnessdown". Thanks!

[Martin Pitt (pitti)]

We are closing this bug report because it lacks the information we need to investigate the problem, as described in the previous comments. Please reopen it if you can give us the missing information, and don't hesitate to submit bug reports in the future. To reopen the bug report you can click on the current status, under the Status column, and change the Status back to "New". Thanks again!

[Basil James Whitehouse III (basil-whitehouse)]

I have a XPS M1210 and the keys have been working from Ubuntu 8.04 through to 9.04.