Ubuntu
hotkey-setup package

Power4 Gear key does not work properly on ASUS A6Km

Bug #42595 reported by elele on 2006-05-02

This bug report is a duplicate of: Bug #35791: asus hotkey ATKD 0000005c (power4gear). Edit Remove

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	hotkey-setup (Ubuntu)	New	Medium	Unassigned

Bug Description

ASUS A6Km notebook has a key for switching between different power management / performance profiles. On Windows this works through Power4 Gear software, which is not available on Linux.

Pressing this key on Dapper / AMD64 activates the screen saver. If possible, a more appropriate action would be to switch between different cpu frequency scaling governors.

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elele (elele-deactivatedaccount) wrote on 2006-05-02:

Output of dmidecode can be found on bug #42588.

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elele (elele-deactivatedaccount) wrote on 2006-05-04:

Here's the generated ACPI event:

[Thu May 4 17:07:25 2006] received event "hotkey ATKD 0000005c 00000001"
[Thu May 4 17:07:25 2006] notifying client 4200[114:114]
[Thu May 4 17:07:25 2006] executing action "/etc/acpi/lockbtn.sh"
[Thu May 4 17:07:25 2006] BEGIN HANDLER MESSAGES
[Thu May 4 17:07:25 2006] END HANDLER MESSAGES
[Thu May 4 17:07:25 2006] action exited with status 0
[Thu May 4 17:07:25 2006] completed event "hotkey ATKD 0000005c 00000001"