Re: thinkpad-acpi: fn-f4 issues

[Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@hmh.eng.br>]

On Wed, 26 Jan 2011, Jeff Chua wrote:
> > Which thinkpad do you have that need CONFIG_THINKPAD_ACPI_HOTKEY_POLL to
> > handle Fn+F4?   I don't expect that to be needed on anything newer than a
> > T32...
> 
> X201s which is quite new.

Yay.  Send me dmidecode (XXX-out UUID and serial numbers) and output of of
acpidump, please.  And check that you have the latest version of the
firmware installed.

> thinkpad_acpi: ThinkPad ACPI Extras v0.24
> thinkpad_acpi: http://ibm-acpi.sf.net/
> thinkpad_acpi: ThinkPad BIOS 6QET62WW (1.32 ), EC 6QHT31WW-1.12
> thinkpad_acpi: Lenovo ThinkPad X201s, model 5413FGA
> thinkpad_acpi: detected a 8-level brightness capable ThinkPad
> thinkpad_acpi: radio switch found; radios are enabled
> thinkpad_acpi: possible tablet mode switch found; ThinkPad in laptop mode
> thinkpad_acpi: rfkill switch tpacpi_bluetooth_sw: radio is blocked

Well, it didn't complain about hotkeys, so it probably got all those that it
requested, which includes Fn+F4.  When in doubt, please either run the
driver in debug mode, or check the hotkey_mask in sysfs.

Please check with xev and something like input-events or some other
input-device snooper whether you get events when you press Fn+F4.  Maybe
userspace is ignoring it.

It should be something else, since poll mode seems to fix it, but let's get
the easy stuff out of the way first.

> thinkpad_acpi: volume: disabled as there is no ALSA support in this kernel
> input: ThinkPad Extra Buttons as /devices/platform/thinkpad_acpi/input/input5
> 
> And the volume up/down does not work either even with thinkpad ALSA
> support enabled.

Check if something in userspace is listening to these keys.  They go over
the regular keyboard interface.  You don't have volume hotkeys or a mixer,
you just have two regular keys.  You'll be lucky if you still have a real
MUTE gate outside of the control of the HDA mixer...

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