Jonathan Lange, as per http://download.lenovo.com/express/ddfm.html an update
is available for your BIOS (43). If you update to this following
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/BiosUpdate , does it change anything? If it
doesn't, could you please both specify what happened, and provide the outpu
Ariel, I also tried Fedora and my keys got messed up, see #57.
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Tim Peeters, i can confirm you are lucky. For about a month my Lenovo
Ideapad U300s worked ok with Ubuntu and Kubuntu (both 13.04). But now
I'm having this issue again, now my F5 key sends F9, i discovered it
when i was close to post a bug about refreshing with F5 key, but's not a
refresh bug no...
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I haven't had the problem since half a year, but I don't know if I was
lucky or it is really solved. Still, I keep a windows partition only in
for when this problem returns (the lenovo bios-flashing software does
not work on linux) that I would like to get rid of when I can be sure
the problem is f
Why this bug importance is medium? it should be high because makes the
ultrabook unusable, even after restart and inside BIOS. I can't find any
GNU Linux distro working ok on this Lenovo Ideapad u300s. Also the model
it's not on sale any more at Lenovo, so i think we bought an expensive
piece of al
Patrick, I couldn't agree more...
Ok, strictly speaking it's not an unavoidable hardware bug because Win7 works
well. But...
I installed Fedora w/ Gnome3. It took me 2 days to install everything and
configure the whole (dual boot) system as I like.
Than yesterday evening the "up" key broke. It s
Robert, I don't know how much of this is software and how much of it is
hardware (or maybe a combination of both) but consider this:
I got the U300S in approx November of 2011, by February of 2012 the hard
drives had died and had to be replaced. In approx September of 2012, the
t-key issue had spr
Yeah, the good news is that they fixed the computer after a bios upgrade
failed at 99%.
I thought the machine was completely bricked, and I lacked it for 1.5 months.
Therefore
***
I DO NOT RECOMMEND USING THE METHOD DESCRIBED IN #47
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No suspend/hibernate (a must in today's laptops)... ok
Anyway, this is not a trivial issue,
t missed key makes virtualized machines almost unusable, there is not an easy
workaround to bring back t on a Guest machine.
It's a shame Ubuntu.
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I personally always bring cross screwdriver with me and if shit happens it
takes me about 2 minutes to open back lid and disconnect battery :D
Unfortunately I did not find quicker nor persistent solution yet...except not
suspending / hibernating or buying new NB.
I don't expect Lenovo (or Canoni
What happened with this tread?
Any good news?
I'm suffering from this issue months ago and there is no known fix.
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Tim, I think I may also have uninstalled and reinstalled the wireless
drivers, before toggling the wireless in the BIOS (using the latest
update from the lenovo drivers website)... good that you got the letters
back,
The problem is almost certainly caused by a bad interaction between the
sleep-mo
My problem got solved by using WinFlash to upgrade my bios from 56CN38WW
to 56CN43WW, for now... Let's see when it comes back.
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I cannot fix the problem by making changes in the bios and rebooting.
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Now my Delete key got mapped to F5 :s Not convenient at all.
I thought the problem was not occurring any more, but I realize that it
always happens when I travel. It happened after I opened the laptop and
it came back from standby, and my wireless network was switched off
before I closed it.
I wi
After a couple of weeks my 'del' key got screwed up again.
This is getting to be a bad joke.
I confirm that you can flash the BIOS to the same version using
C:\BIOS\56cn43ww\WinFlash.exe C:\BIOS\56cn43ww\56CN43WW.ROM /FORCE
but it makes no use.
However it does if you do it with an older version,
Update on my previous report: Draining the battery (the old fashioned
way) worked for me. All my keys came back, even the letter t.
However, within a few hours, the problem returned. And here is what I
believe happens: Recall that I have a dual-boot windows-kubuntu. The
problem occurred after I di
In my previous comment I seem to have mixed up the bios references
56cn43ww and 56cn38ww, I have flashed back and forth several times
between them to no avail. Does anyone know of another bios?
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I have just joined the club. I've had my Lenovo U300S for nearly a year
now and only yesterday, for the first time, have I experienced the bug.
I have a dual-boot windows/ubuntu. The bug is definitely in the bios
since it affects both os. In my case, the letter t is remapped to F9
(because I'm on d
"winflash /FORCE" allowed me to launch winflash and reflash an older
BIOS.
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Can somebody confirm that "Cliff Wells" trick to reflash same BIOS
version using /force option works? Is there any manual for BIOS
flashing util? I tried almost every combination of cmd options (/? /help
.) to get help but with no success.
Now my NB works ok (after battery disconnect) so I ha
Anyone know how to force the BIOS update from console? I cant seem to
figure it out, and more and more keys are getting remapped..
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In case anybody was wondering, the problem also occurs on Ubuntu 12.10
Beta 1 ... so tired of this bug, keeping me from running linux ..
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Carlos, do you have a dual boot machine? You can download the firmware
update for windows from Lenovo's homepage. This will fix the issue at
least once...
Cliff, thank you, i'll try to figure it out when it breaks next time.
I think, however, that flashing the firmware on a regular basis from op.
@robert.vertesi You *can* reflash using same version, you have to do it
from command line and use /force option. I no longer have my U300s, so
I can't give you the exact path/command to run, but I did it right
before getting rid of it.
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Hello everybody
i'm new at linux, actually im still learning some basic terminal
commands and i got this problem too.. I use CentOS 6.3
So actually the only way to solve is draining the battery.. is there
any other way?
tyvm
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Sorry for spamming this thread but do ALL U300s's do this with Precise?
It took less than a day and my Del key began sending
^[[19~ 27 0033 0x1b
91 0133 0x5b
49 0061 0x31
57 0071 0x39
126 0176 0x7e
I am considering sending the computer back. I really don't wa
I confirm that draining the battery makes this error go away. However I
agree it would be better if we had some more gentle solution... This
arror is really annoying and I do not understand how the op.sys. can
break something on the BIOS level...
I have an u300s since a month and the keys have alr
Well, problem with 't' is back in 2 days... It has really something to
do with recovering from Suspended state.
None of the procedures I mentioned in previous post worked except one
!!!
I decided to remove bottom lid and disconnect the battery (Can't lose
weeks waiting for warranty repair). And B
I had the same problem...
First time i solved it by flashing to last BIOS version. But the problem
returned after some time so flashing is just temporary fix. Last BIOS
(56CN43WW) does not fix the problem. The act of flashing probably resets
something somewhere and makes it work, until UBUNTU mess
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Tim,
Today something weird happened, I just remember being downloading from Ubuntu
Software Center, "Chromium web browser". After the installation, the "t" key
was missed again, checking xev command, reports keycode 117 (same as "Next").
Now I have two "t" key on keyboard and no "Next" key.
u
Hi Tim,
I'm sorry for this late response, I'm running 3.2.0-29-generic
I hope this can help.
Best regards,
MH
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Moisés, which kernel are you running? Can you post the output of 'uname
-a'?
If you have the kernel that Brad Figg requested to test with or newer,
the status of this bug report can be changed from Incomplete to
Confirmed. I have a new kernel, but I didn't have the issue for a while
now so I canno
Hello everyone,
Same problem after opened a console from GUI (as tijns said in post #21) u300s
i5, ubuntu 12.04 and gnome 3.4.
Enabled t key with xmodmap -e "keycode 75 = t" on a terminal.
I'm waiting for a kernel fix.
Regards,
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No, I am not planning to return the system for a refund. I bought it
when I was in Malaysia for two months (its a lot cheaper there, but I
knew I was taking a risk with warranty), and now I am (back) in
Netherlands and I doubt that I have rights to any warranty at all. I
think they don't even sell
@Tim
Are you planning on returning this system for a refund? If you've sent
it in that many times, you should be able to get a refund. I'm sending
mine in for "repair" mostly so that I can create a record of repair
attempts in order to force a refund. I'm curious if anyone else has
tried to ret
Mine started doing this last night (delete key performs some other
function) after resuming from suspend. I'm running their latest BIOS
(checked before I installed Ubuntu) on an i7. It worked fine for two
weeks prior to this.
One thing about this keyboard is that the Fn keys can be remapped from
Thanks Tim!
Last week my story became even more absurd. On Tuesday my U300s returned
from the Lenovo service center (in NL that's Medion). This might have
been its fourth or fifth trip there. They replaced the keyboard and
upgraded the BIOS (which I found surprising since it already had the
latest
Tijn, you were asking for the manufacturing date. Mine is 11/12/06, not
the same week but it is the same month.
I have the U300s version with an i5 CPU.
I can happily report that I haven't had the keyboard issues for a while
now. I still didn't figure out why I had them before, or why I don't
hav
Update:
So I called Lenovo and they told me to send the laptop back. I recovered it to
factory state with dvds I burned before I did a clean Kubuntu install. This
morning (~5 days back on win7) I opened the lid and pushed the power button to
switch the machine on. Apparently it was hibernating b
I'm encountering this issue too. It started with the letter 't' acting
as the F9 key (same keycode in xev and showkeys). Since yesterday things
got worse. By now the keys t, arrow-up, delete and F5 all act as the F9
key, which renders the xmodmap solution useless (all 5 keys result in
the letter t
Issue is not solved after all. My T-key is failing again.
I now know how one can reproduce it:
While running on battery, press Fn+Alt+F2 (to enter a command in
gnome-shell).
That's all it takes, and it is totally in line with what I first
encountered. To make it worse, I can't repair it beca
Thank you Takashi!
Last weekend I finally succeeded in installing (a borrowed version of)
Windows 7 on a small partition to flash the BIOS.
To everyone struggling with the same thing: for me, the trick was to use
the Windows USB Boot Tool on my old Vista laptop to create a bootable
USB-stick. T
Hi Tijn,
As far as my U300s is concerned, since I updated the BIOS to ver.
56cn43ww, the keyboard issue has NOT come back and seems to be resolved.
If the BIOS version of your laptop is a previous version, I think it is
worth trying the version I have installed.
I guess the problem for many of us
Anyone managed to flash the BIOS without a Windows install?
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The soap continues, within a day my T-key started sending the signal for
Hiragana-Katana. I just found out that the service center flashed an old
version of the BIOS 56cn38ww, while 56cn43ww is the newest. I am really
unhappy with this situation.
Conclusion: the problem is resolved by flashing the
My attempts to boot up Windows to flash the BIOS completely failed. So,
I sent my laptop to the Ideapad service center with a letter that
contained a link to this thread and explained everything I tried to fix
it.
I got a short letter back with my laptop saying that they simply flashed
the BIOS fo
I got my U300s three weeks ago or so and just now my 't' key decided to
map to Shift_L. I was logged in at the time, the computer was idle with
its screen locked. I was aware that this problem has cropped up on
other machines, so I knew where to look. I also see that the 't' key
doesn't work in
I am going to try to do the same thing as Takashi Kawashima (coolshades)
did. That will be a tricky thing since I've blown away the windows-
partition but if I manage to do it I will post the results here.
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In the evening of the same day that I got my U300s the 't' key started
sending "Hiragana-Katana". Luckily I was able return this laptop and I
got a brand new one. A week after I got that one, its "delete" key
started acting up. It thinks it's "F10" now. The situation is really
similar to what Alex
I had the same issue with my U300s. When I pressed "t" key, the key was
recognized as "F10". I'm using the US key mapping. It started less
than a week after I received it from Lenovo.
>From what I see, the cause of the symptom is not in the OS level. Like
Will stated I observed the same sympto
On my Levono U300s, the 't' key seems to have remapped to TAB. It this
occurs in the BIOS as well.
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Thank you for taking the time to file a bug report on this issue.
However, given the number of bugs that the Kernel Team receives during
any development cycle it is impossible for us to review them all.
Therefore, we occasionally resort to using automated bots to request
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Would it be possible to test the latest upstream kernel? Refer to
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This is interesting... a month or so ago my "t" key on my Lenovo U300S
started returning the event for "F3". This happened even in the BIOS
screen (i.e. it was not a Linux or Ubuntu issue) and it started
happening at some random time days after rebooting/upgrading. Lenovo
replaced my keyboard i
Yes, this sounds very weird but I have almost the same problem.
I use US keyboard layout (I bought the U300s in Malaysia), and after a
few weeks suddenly my 't' key did not work anymore. Maybe it was mapped
to another key also, but I did not check at the time. I thought it was a
hardware problem a
* Just wanted to add that I'm using a german keyboard and german kb
layout, so dont wonder about different keycodes.
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I used Xubuntu 12.04 Beta 1 and after an uptime of ~12 days the "Delete"-Key
were suddenly mapped wrong. Instead of deleting, it triggert right-mouse-btn
menus. After 19 Days of uptime the Arrow-Up-Key was suddenly mapped wrong.
I did never upgrade or install much except QtCreator and the Ogre S
I can't time it to a particular upgrade, sorry, there are so many
upgrades at this point of the development cycle. If you can tell me how
to figure out whether an upgrade happened based on a guess of a date,
then I will do so. As it is, I first saw this issue on the day or the
day before filing th
xev output of 't' key on an affected laptop.
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