Special keys (hot keys) on ASUS 1005 series

[s-s]

I am testing ubuntu 10.04 beta 1 on a ASUS EeePC 1005ha from a flash thumb drive.

This are the keys that I have tested:

Sleep: Fn+F1 working
Wireless/Bluetooth ON/OFF: Fn+F2 not working
Touch-pad ON/OFF: Fn+F3 not working
Screen Resolution: Fn+F4 not working
Brightness -: Fn+F5 working
Brightness +: Fn+F6 working
Screen illumination ON/OFF: Fn+F7 (screen becomes totally dark)
External Monitor: Fn+F8 not working
Task Manager Fn+F9 not working
Mute: Fn+F10 not working
Volume -: Fn+F11 not working
Volume +: Fn+F12 not working

Extra key for disabling touch-pad not working

I also have tested the following and they all work fine:
Built in SD card reader
External monitor via SYSTEM MONITORS
Volume +- via SYSTEM SOUND
Wireless
External mouse
Built in camera
Built in microphone

Some of this bugs are also describes in bug #25610

Best regards and many thanks to all of you who are working so hard on ubuntu

[Muriel de Souza Godoi (murielgodoi)]

The same in my Assus EEEPC 1008HA

[Martin Pitt (pitti)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better.

Please exercise the steps in /usr/share/doc/udev/README.keymap.txt.gz to determine the missing scan code mapping, and attach the collected information. Thanks!

[s-s (silvan-streuli)]

Unfortunately updating ubuntu 10.04 Beta 1 failed on my USB thumb drive. Therefore I had to do the test without an updated system.
I exercised the steps in /usr/share/doc/udev/README.keymap.txt.gz
In step 3: sudo /lib/udev/keymap -i input/event5 (in my case)
Pressing Fn+F1....F12 produces no printout! But as mentioned above - some of this spezial keys works. The rest of the keys seems to produce reasonable printouts.
So, I have decided to wait for beta 2 which should be available within the next two days.
Then I will do this test again and and try to provide useful information.

[Martin Pitt (pitti)]

s-s,

it's also possible that the keys which produced no output on input/event5 belong to a different input device. You could just try input0, input1, etc. until you hit one which does produce output for these keys?

[s-s (silvan-streuli)]

Today I found this bug, where the same problem is described. https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/518007
I only had a few minutes to test beta 2 yesterday evening. The problem is still the same.
Unfortunately built in mic and loudspeakers are not working anymore. They where working in beta 1.
Hopefully I will find some time in the next days to do more tests.