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  1. Bug #278859
  2. Comment #11

Comment 11 for bug 278859

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Fractal (guillaume-brunerie) wrote :

I have an HP dv6500 laptop, and I can confirm that the DVD key doesn't work.
Following this page (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Hotkeys/Troubleshooting) this is a bug in hal because the keycode is greater than 255.
Indeed, xev cannot detect anything, but input-events do :

$ sudo input-events 5

/dev/input/event5
   bustype : BUS_I8042
   vendor : 0x1
   product : 0x1
   version : 43841
   name : "AT Translated Set 2 keyboard"
   phys : "isa0060/serio0/input0"
   bits ev : EV_SYN EV_KEY EV_MSC EV_LED EV_REP

waiting for events
[...]
00:36:48.717739: EV_MSC code=4 value=142
00:36:48.717758: EV_KEY KEY_DVD (0x185) pressed
00:36:48.717763: EV_SYN code=0 value=0
00:36:48.727695: EV_MSC code=4 value=142
00:36:48.727706: EV_KEY KEY_DVD (0x185) released
00:36:48.727710: EV_SYN code=0 value=0
[...]

and you can see that the keycode is 0x185 > 0xFF.