Acer Aspire One - Fn-Left/Right = Suspend

[jbg]

Hi there,

I have this very very odd problem. I just installed Fedora 11, the XFCE spinoff, on my Acer Aspire One. Works great so far, with a few minor modifications. But, there's a problem that's bugging me like mad.

On the Acer Aspire One, when you press the combination Fn-Left/Right, it should decrease/increase the brightness on the machine. Instead of doing so though, it goes into suspend-mode! And I can't for the life of me figure out why. I have checked everything I can in /usr/share/hal/, /proc/, /sys/, and don't know where to go from here.

Now, the odd thing is, if I press Ctrl-Fn-Left/Right, it works as it should! The brightness of the machine decreases/increases as normal. But it's still itching me that I can't figure out why it's acting this way.

Does anyone have any suggestions as to how I can continue troubleshooting? Or how to fix this, if possible?

Here's some of the information I've gotten hold of.

[root@howl ~]# lshal | grep -i keymap
  info.callouts.add = {'hal-setup-keymap', 'fedora-setup-keyboard'} (string list)
  info.capabilities = {'input', 'input.keyboard', 'input.keypad', 'input.keys', 'input.keymap', 'button'} (string list)
  input.keymap.data = {'e025:help', 'e026:setup', 'e027:battery', 'e029:switchvideomode', 'e033:euro', 'e034:dollar', 'e04e:brightnessup', 'e054:bluetooth', 'e055:wlan', 'e056:wlan', 'e057:bluetooth', 'e058:bluetooth', 'e059:brightnessup', 'e06e:brightnessup', 'e06f:brightnessdown', 'e071:f22', 'e072:f22', 'e073:prog2', 'e074:prog1', 'e075:presentation', 'e078:fn', 'e079:f23'} (string list)

[root@howl hal]# xmodmap
xmodmap:  up to 2 keys per modifier, (keycodes in parentheses):

shift       Shift_L (0x32),  Shift_R (0x3e)
lock        Caps_Lock (0x42)
control     Control_L (0x25),  Control_R (0x69)
mod1        Alt_L (0x40),  Meta_L (0xcd)
mod2        Num_Lock (0x4d)
mod3
mod4        Super_L (0xce),  Hyper_L (0xcf)
mod5        ISO_Level3_Shift (0x5c),  Mode_switch (0xcb)

All feedback is appreciated.

[ryptyde]

I have the AAO and recently installed F11 Gnome and the keyboard behave as expected. Is there a chance you have selected the wrong keyboard, there is a choice to select a different keyboard at the login window once the user has been selected. I can post the output of your keymap command from my AAO if you wish as they are different.

EDIT:

lshal | grep -i keymap
  info.callouts.add = {'hal-setup-keymap', 'fedora-setup-keyboard'} (string list)
  info.capabilities = {'input', 'input.keyboard', 'input.keypad', 'input.keys', 'input.keymap', 'button'} (string list)
  input.keymap.data = {'e025:help', 'e026:setup', 'e027:battery', 'e029:switchvideomode', 'e033:euro', 'e034:dollar', 'e04e:brightnessup', 'e054:bluetooth', 'e055:wlan', 'e056:wlan', 'e057:bluetooth', 'e058:bluetooth', 'e059:brightnessup', 'e06e:brightnessup', 'e06f:brightnessdown', 'e071:f22', 'e072:f22', 'e073:prog2', 'e074:prog1', 'e075:presentation', 'e078:fn', 'e079:f23'} (string list)

hope this helps.

OOPs looks like I misread mine and they do appear to be the same, sorry.

[linker3000]

I've been running FC11 (with Gnome) on my AA1 for a few days now and I have just checked the fn-left and right keys and they work as expected.

Anything I can check for you?

[jbg]

I'm not sure to be honest, no clue of where to continue my search. What type of keyboard do you guys have set up? It might be something with the XFCE I'm running, but I've pretty much looked everywhere, and am at a loss here. =/

[ryptyde]

Originally Posted by jbg

I'm not sure to be honest, no clue of where to continue my search. What type of keyboard do you guys have set up? It might be something with the XFCE I'm running, but I've pretty much looked everywhere, and am at a loss here. =/

At the login screen mine says "Keyboard US".

[jbg]

I managed to solve the issue.

The brightness/suspend thing is a bug in xfce4-powermanager 0.8beta.

There’s a link to the release 0.8.0 version that fixes it here:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=505414.

Or you can wait for it to turn up in the updates repository.