Bug 837 - bluetooth hotkey changes backlight-setting instead of enabling bluetooth
Summary: bluetooth hotkey changes backlight-setting instead of enabling bluetooth
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Mageia
Classification: Unclassified
Component: RPM Packages (show other bugs)
Version: Cauldron
Hardware: x86_64 Linux
Priority: Normal normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Mageia Bug Squad
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Reported: 2011-04-16 00:41 CEST by AL13N
Modified: 2011-10-18 00:47 CEST (History)
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Description AL13N 2011-04-16 00:41:13 CEST
Description of problem:

on an acer laptop, there's a group of 5 buttons on the left side of the keyboard.
among which are enabling wireless (which works), the rest fails:

icons (from top to bottom):
1. no idea what it means it's like sort of an "i" like info (dmesg lists some kind of keycode)
2. wifi: OK
3. browser: nothing happens
4. mail: nothing happens
5. bluetooth: backlight becomes maximized

to be completely fair, i never before tested out the bluetooth button or functionality on this laptop, on any OS.

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Manuel Hiebel 2011-07-10 15:22:53 CEST

Component: Installer => RPM Packages

Comment 1 Manuel Hiebel 2011-07-27 18:34:26 CEST
still present ? what is the hardware ?

Keywords: (none) => NEEDINFO

Comment 2 AL13N 2011-07-27 21:52:34 CEST
yes, still present.

how do you mean what hardware? what do you want to know?
Comment 3 Ahmad Samir 2011-07-31 10:42:20 CEST
To file a bug report upstream, follow the instructions in /usr/share/doc/udev-doc/README.keymap.txt

Source RPM: (none) => udev

Comment 4 AL13N 2011-07-31 12:24:03 CEST
are you sure this is a udev error? wouldn't it be in some driver or something?
Comment 5 AL13N 2011-07-31 12:24:54 CEST
oh and how exactly should it enable bluetooth? i can't seem to find anything like it, perhaps that key should power it on/connect it to usb bus?
Comment 6 Marja Van Waes 2011-10-09 16:39:50 CEST
(In reply to comment #2)
> yes, still present.
> 
> how do you mean what hardware? what do you want to know?

And again: still present?

Which Acer laptop is it? At least model/type number, and if the keyboard layout isn't the same on all models with that number: the keyboard lay-out as well.

CC: (none) => marja11

Comment 7 AL13N 2011-10-17 12:49:59 CEST
Acer Aspire 7530G Series - 724G32MN

this is a belgian azerty keyboard layout (but don't think the side buttons are part of keyboard?)
Comment 8 Marja Van Waes 2011-10-17 17:39:29 CEST
@ AL13N

I understand the problem is still there.

If you can replace the keyboard without replacing those buttons, indeed, than the side buttons aren't part of the keyboard :)
 
Anyway, I thought those easy launch buttons were set in the keymap, because I've seen things like: 
245         0x1008ff94 (XF86Bluetooth) 
in a keymap, but now I discovered that there is no relation between the keycode of those buttons (as shown with showkey) and what's behind that keycode in the keymap. I guess those keymap settings are overruled by some settings somewhere else.

In /lib/udev/keymaps/acer, I found:

0xD7 bluetooth # (toggle) on-to-off
0xD8 bluetooth # (toggle) off-to-on 

There are more acer's in /lib/udev/keymaps, but no 7530G, so I guess Ahmad was right after all that you should report upstream. The document he referred to, isn't there, btw.
If you do report upstream, please put the link to the report in the URL field

cc'ing Anssi, who patched udev in april

Keywords: NEEDINFO => (none)
CC: (none) => anssi.hannula

Comment 9 AL13N 2011-10-17 18:28:34 CEST
i saw keycode 233 when using xev on it but it was bound to XF86ScreenBrightnessUp or something. i'm wondering if this udev thing can be used for that. anyone know?
Comment 10 AL13N 2011-10-17 21:10:51 CEST
ok, i've been trying to test this locally before i update

i've seen some other exceptions to acer rules that enable bluetooth on 0xD9 (which is the key), so i modified the rules file and rebooted, but it appears it's still bound to brightnessup instead of bluetooth...

do i need to remake an initrd or something?
Comment 11 AL13N 2011-10-18 00:47:28 CEST
ok, i sort of found out how it works, but then come to the conclusion that likely this laptop may not even have a working bt, it's totally unclear, but having no rfkill entry, i'm giving up, closing issue.

Status: NEW => RESOLVED
Resolution: (none) => WONTFIX


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