acpi_fakekey doesn't generate a "synchronization" event
Bug #665561 reported by
Stefano Facchini
This bug affects 3 people
| Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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| acpi-support (Ubuntu) |
Confirmed
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Undecided
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Unassigned | ||
Bug Description
Binary package hint: acpi-support
I use acpi_fakekey to generate keycodes for keys otherwise not recognized (e.g. FN+KP_ENTER, which should generate KEY_CALC on my Asus K52), via the usual syntax
acpi_fakekey $KEY_CALC
The correspoding keycode (140) is correctly generated, but it is not immediately synchronized. I have to press some other key before the event XF86Calculator is recognized (as I discovered with xev).
I checked the source code of acpi_fakekey. Actually, it doesn't write the event EV_SYN.SYN_REPORT after the EV_KEY. With the patch attached everything works fine. I don't know if this is a bug, maybe there are reasons for excluding the synchronization?
Ubuntu 10.10
package: acpi-support-0.137
Revision history for this message
| Stefano Facchini (stefano-facchini) wrote | #1 |
Revision history for this message
| pablomme (pablomme) wrote | #2 |
| Changed in acpi-support (Ubuntu): | |
| status: | New → Confirmed |
| tags: | added: patch |
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Confirming problem with Maverick. Haven't tested patch.