asus a6u browser button does not work

[Brad Pitcher]

Binary package hint: acpi-support

Hardy Alpha 5
The button should open a web browser, but it does nothing

[Sat Mar 1 18:11:59 2008] received event "hotkey ATKD 00000051 0000000a"
[Sat Mar 1 18:11:59 2008] notifying client 9051[110:122]
[Sat Mar 1 18:11:59 2008] notifying client 14283[0:0]
[Sat Mar 1 18:11:59 2008] executing action "/etc/acpi/webbtn.sh"
[Sat Mar 1 18:11:59 2008] BEGIN HANDLER MESSAGES
[Sat Mar 1 18:11:59 2008] END HANDLER MESSAGES
[Sat Mar 1 18:11:59 2008] action exited with status 0
[Sat Mar 1 18:11:59 2008] completed event "hotkey ATKD 00000051 0000000a"

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
Date: Sat Mar 1 18:38:07 2008
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.04
Package: acpi-support 0.105
PackageArchitecture: amd64
SourcePackage: acpi-support
Uname: Linux 2.6.24-10-generic x86_64

[nosrednaekim (nosrednaekim)]

Hello, thank you for the bug report. Please run "xev",press the button again, and paste whatever output is given

nosrednaekim

[Brad Pitcher (bradpitcher)]

No output is given by xev when I press the browser launch button

[Daniel Hahler (blueyed)]

Are you using Gnome (Ubuntu) or something else (e.g. Kubuntu)?
/etc/acpi/webbtn.sh (which gets executed) simulates a keypress with key code 150 ($KEY_WWW).
As far as I understand this should be caught then by Gnome to open your browser.
Anyway, "sudo acpi_fakekey 150" does nothing for me, too (KDE4 and Gnome).

[Artem Popov (artfwo)]

Same here on ASUS F3Ka. Anyway, if acpi-support successfully sends the web button event to X server, maybe this is a bug with some KDE/GNOME settings?

[Daniel Hahler (blueyed)]

I'm marking this as duplicate of bug 217504, which should make it easier to track down the real bug.
Currently it looks like some bug in the kernel.
You may want to try with linux 2.6.22, if you have it still available - just to narrow it down.
Thank you.