"Screen-brightness up" key on Fujitsu Siemens U9210 produce brightness up/down event

Bug #432308 reported by Xaignar
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Bug Description

The screen-brightness keys on the Fujitsu-Siemens Esprimo Mobile U9210 works somewhat, resulting in a progress bar being shown, and the brightness level changing. However, the brightness-up key appears to produce both an brightness-up and a brightness-down event, with the result that it is only possible to decrease the screen brightness.

Following the step-by-step troubleshooting guide at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Hotkeys/Troubleshooting resulted in the following:
2) Xev does not produce any keycodes for the two keys.
4) Using the udev keymap utility did not produce any events
6) Using acpi_listen, the following events resulted:

When pressing the brightness-down key:
video DD04 00000087 00000000

When pressing the brightness-up key:
video DD04 00000086 00000000
video DD04 00000087 00000000

ProblemType: Bug
AplayDevices:
 **** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
 card 0: Intel [HDA Intel], device 0: ALC262 Analog [ALC262 Analog]
   Subdevices: 1/1
   Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
Architecture: amd64
ArecordDevices:
 **** List of CAPTURE Hardware Devices ****
 card 0: Intel [HDA Intel], device 0: ALC262 Analog [ALC262 Analog]
   Subdevices: 1/1
   Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
AudioDevicesInUse:
 USER PID ACCESS COMMAND
 /dev/snd/controlC0: mschubert 2318 F.... xfce4-volumed
                      mschubert 2351 F.... pulseaudio
CRDA: Error: [Errno 2] No such file or directory
Card0.Amixer.info:
 Card hw:0 'Intel'/'HDA Intel at 0xfc520000 irq 22'
   Mixer name : 'Realtek ALC262'
   Components : 'HDA:10ec0262,17341141,00100202'
   Controls : 24
   Simple ctrls : 16
Date: Fri Sep 18 09:13:32 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
MachineType: FUJITSU SIEMENS ESPRIMO Mobile U9210
Package: linux-image-2.6.31-10-generic 2.6.31-10.34
ProcCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/vmlinuz-2.6.31-10-generic root=UUID=b542c4f9-0a51-4739-9b73-1f121cab4bff ro quiet splash
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_DK.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-10.34-generic
RelatedPackageVersions:
 linux-backports-modules-2.6.31-10-generic N/A
 linux-firmware 1.19
RfKill:
 0: phy0: Wireless LAN
  Soft blocked: no
  Hard blocked: no
SourcePackage: linux
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-10-generic x86_64
WpaSupplicantLog:

dmi.bios.date: 09/03/2008
dmi.bios.vendor: Phoenix
dmi.bios.version: S118D0FR.102 - R058 - 1659
dmi.board.asset.tag: Tag 12345
dmi.board.name: S118DB
dmi.board.vendor: FUJITSU SIEMENS
dmi.board.version: 10
dmi.chassis.type: 10
dmi.chassis.vendor: FUJITSU SIEMENS
dmi.chassis.version: 1.0
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnPhoenix:bvrS118D0FR.102-R058-1659:bd09/03/2008:svnFUJITSUSIEMENS:pnESPRIMOMobileU9210:pvr1.0:rvnFUJITSUSIEMENS:rnS118DB:rvr10:cvnFUJITSUSIEMENS:ct10:cvr1.0:
dmi.product.name: ESPRIMO Mobile U9210
dmi.product.version: 1.0
dmi.sys.vendor: FUJITSU SIEMENS

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Xaignar (xaignar) wrote :
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Xaignar (xaignar) wrote :

Additional information, from running the following commands:
uname -a > uname-a.log
cat /proc/version_signature > version.log
dmesg > dmesg.log
sudo lspci -vnvn > lspci-vnvn.log

and (from the wiki page)

udevadm info --export-db > udev-db.txt
dmesg > dmesg.log
xkbcomp -xkb :0 - > xkbcomp.txt
setxkbmap -print > xkbmap.txt

The following was not run, due to not being able to find the program in question:
sudo lsinput > lsinput.log

The following command produced a warning:
$ sudo xkbcomp -xkb :0 - > xkbcomp.txt
Warning: Could not load keyboard geometry for :0
                  BadAlloc (insufficient resources for operation)
                  Resulting keymap file will not describe geometry

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Xaignar (xaignar) wrote :

I found a workaround in this related bug (for a very similar model of laptop, U9200):
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/352699

If /sys/module/video/parameters/brightness_switch_enabled is set to "N", then both brightness keys works as expected.

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Pascal Will (luciensan) wrote :

The mentioned workaround works for me with my U9200 laptop.

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Xaignar (xaignar) wrote :

The brightness keys now work correctly, even with brightness_switch_enabled set to Y.

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Jeremy Foshee (jeremyfoshee) wrote :

Hi Xaignar,

This bug was reported a while ago and there hasn't been any activity in it recently. We were wondering if this is still an issue? Can you try with the latest development release of Ubuntu? ISO CD images are available from http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/releases/ .

If it remains an issue, could you run the following command from a Terminal (Applications->Accessories->Terminal). It will automatically gather and attach updated debug information to this report.

apport-collect -p linux 432308

Also, if you could test the latest upstream kernel available that would be great. It will allow additional upstream developers to examine the issue. Refer to https://wiki.ubuntu.com/KernelMainlineBuilds . Once you've tested the upstream kernel, please remove the 'needs-upstream-testing' tag. This can be done by clicking on the yellow pencil icon next to the tag located at the bottom of the bug description and deleting the 'needs-upstream-testing' text. Please let us know your results.

Thanks in advance.

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tags: added: needs-kernel-logs
tags: added: needs-upstream-testing
tags: added: kj-triage
Changed in linux (Ubuntu):
status: New → Incomplete
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Xaignar (xaignar) wrote :

As noted previously, this bug no longer exists.

Cheers.

bing (ingrambj)
Changed in linux (Ubuntu):
status: Incomplete → Fix Released
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David Sanfelix (davidsanfelix) wrote :

im have this problem too, and I don't know what resolve it. any ideas?

I'm test the solution modifying the grub file, the xorg file, maping the keys, xbacklight...

any ideas?

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