Linux 4.6 has been released a few hours ago and it contains the patches
that fix this issue.
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Title:
Dell Vostro V131: special keys not working
The relevant patches have been accepted for testing:
https://www.spinics.net/lists/platform-driver-x86/msg08631.html
If everything goes smoothly, chances are they will land in 4.6. I will
report back once that happens.
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These are not the patches you are looking for. *ba dum tsss*
They fix a related issue, which I discovered while trying to get the
Instant Launch hotkey working. They are of course an improvement, but
those patches alone won't solve the problem for which this bug was
created.
The actual fix is in
@Darek: thank you for taking your time to prepare the WMI event listing.
I forwarded your findings upstream:
http://www.spinics.net/lists/platform-driver-x86/msg07317.html
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@Whoopie: I'm betting that's because of the KE_IGNORE entry for event
0xe025 in the legacy keymap (the second link from my previous message
touches upon that issue). Try replacing that entry with the following
one:
{ KE_KEY, 0xe025, { KEY_PROG3 } },
Then recompile the kernel, restart and try agai
@Darek: Thanks for reporting, this proves there are more Dell laptop
models than just the Vostro V131 that need a specially crafted SMI in
order to receive events via WMI. BTW, hotkey #2 reports WMI event 0xe06e
on Vostro V131 (the same one as on your Inspiron), not sure why you
mentioned 0xe026.
I know I'm a bit late to the party, but I'm also affected by this bug on
Ubuntu 15.04 (kernel 3.19.0-16) and I would very much like to see it
resolved, so I tried to push the investigation forward. I'll refer to
hotkeys using the numbers from the original post for simplicity.
I believe these hotke
