Re: hp-wmi: info hotkey has no keycode or scancode

[Armin Wolf <W_Armin@gmx.de>]

Am 20.01.24 um 22:39 schrieb Dennis Nezic:

> On 20 Jan 21:52, Armin Wolf wrote:
>> Am 20.01.24 um 19:58 schrieb Dennis Nezic:
>>
>>> Guys, the "info" illuminated touch-key (hotkey?) on my laptop "doesn't
>>> work", showkey doesn't report any keycode or scancode. I don't see any
>>> wmi related error messages from dmesg. All the other illuminated
>>> "hotkeys" work fine, although confusingly evtest and "libinput
>>> debug-events" report that they're coming through the event interface
>>> associated with "AT Translated Set 2 keyboard" instead of "HP WMI
>>> hotkeys", but hey, as long as I receive them I'm okay :p.
>>>
>>> hp-wmi.c does seem to reference it:
>>>     { KE_KEY, 0x213b,  { KEY_INFO } },
>>>
>>> How can I go about troubleshooting this? (I'm using kernel 6.6.8)
>> it can be possible that your machine does not use hp-wmi to deliver keycodes
>> to the operating system, but instead emulates a standard keyboard controller.
>>
>> Can you check with "kacpimon" that events concerning a PNP0C14 device are being
>> received?
> Very possible indeed. "kacpimon" doesn't show anything when I press that
> touchkey, but it does when I press all the other touchkeys. (I do get
> lots of accelerometer noise.)
>
Interesting, can you please share the output of:
- "kacpimon" while you where pressing the buttons
- "acpidump"

Thanks,
Armin Wolf