Fn and Media keys don't work completely on Toshiba Satellite a105-s2231

Bug #842114 reported by AmEv
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Bug Description

I have a Toshiba Satellite A105-s2231 with Ubuntu 11.04. One of the things I noticed quicky about it is that the Fn and Media keys don't work completely.
Image of my keyboard for reference(yes I know. I'm missing keys; that's not the intent here:
http://ubuntuone.com/p/1GO1/

The keys in detail:
Fn+Esc = Mute/unmute: Works
Fn+F1 = Lock: Does nothing
Fn+F2 = Power mode (I believe): Does nothing
Fn+F3 = Sleep: It goes into sleep, but doesn't fully wake up (another bug in of itself)
Fn+F4 = Hibernate: Starts hibernation process but doesn't finish (again, a different bug)
Fn+F5 = Toggle display: I don't think Ubuntu even uses this key, so....
Fn+F6 = Backlight down: Works
Fn+F7 = Backlight up: Works
Fn+F8 = Wireless on/off: Doesn't do anything (and neither does the switch on the side, I might add.)
Fn+F9 = Touchpad on/off: Doesn't do anything
Fn+F10 = Emulate arrowpad: Works
Fn+F11 = Emulate numberpad: Works
Fn_F12 = Scroll lock (again, Ubuntu doesn't use it)
Media keys under power button:
Globe icon = Web: Works somewhat (driver apparently reads it as Open Home directory)
Film icon = Media: Doesn't do anything
Play/pause, stop, and skip forward and back all work.

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Brian Murray (brian-murray) wrote :

Keymaps are generally assigned by udev so assigning this to that package. There is a toshiba-satellite_a100 in /lib/udev/keymaps/ which may also cover your system.

affects: ubuntu → udev (Ubuntu)
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AmEv (ae-7fam) wrote :

Thanks for trying to help.

Few problems:

I have no idea how to install the file.
Even if I did, here's the entirety of the file:

0xA4 stopcd
0xB2 www

Two whole lines.

I did try to go to keyboard properties and use the drop-down selection box to select the keyboard model, but all I got was "Toshiba | Toshiba Satellite S3000"

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AmEv (ae-7fam) wrote :

One more thing:
I ran " xev | sed -n 's/^.*state \([0-9].*\), keycode *\([0-9]\+\) *\(.*\), .*$/keycode \2 = \3, state = \1/p' ".
All media keys and Fn+F(2, 5, 8, 9, 12) all had NO output.
Fn+F1 had:

keycode 133 = (keysym 0xffeb, Super_L), state = 0x0
keycode 46 = (keysym 0x6c, l), state = 0x40
keycode 133 = (keysym 0xffeb, Super_L), state = 0x40

On one keypress. Technically two, but....
Probably sending a WinKey/Meta/Super+L command.
Default Lock command for Windows, but I know that Linux usually is Ctrl+Alt+L.

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Martin Pitt (pitti) wrote :

If it's still an issue in oneiric, can you please follow the "fixing broken keys" section in /usr/share/doc/udev/README.keymap.txt.gz and add the info here? Thanks!

Changed in udev (Ubuntu):
status: New → Incomplete
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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

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

Changed in udev (Ubuntu):
status: Incomplete → Expired
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