Public bug reported: According to Dell Latitude D830 manual, <Fn> and left-arrow key should activate the ambient light sensor, which controls brightness of the display based on light level in the current environment. I've checked it in WinPE and in GRUB - it works well. But in user account in my Kubuntu 13.04 <Fn> and left-arrow key returns:
(XEV output) KeyPress event, serial 40, synthetic NO, window 0x4000001, root 0x103, subw 0x0, time 4948865, (162,-13), root:(164,45), state 0x0, keycode 201 (keysym 0x1008ffb1, XF86TouchpadOff), same_screen YES, XLookupString gives 0 bytes: XmbLookupString gives 0 bytes: XFilterEvent returns: False So, as we see, this is mistake and it should not return any code because it processes through BIOS and must switch on/of ambient light sensor to operate correctly according to laptop manual. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.04 Package: xorg 1:7.7+1ubuntu4 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.8.0-19.29-generic 3.8.8 Uname: Linux 3.8.0-19-generic x86_64 ApportVersion: 2.9.2-0ubuntu8 Architecture: amd64 Date: Tue Apr 23 15:19:14 2013 InstallationDate: Installed on 2013-02-28 (53 days ago) InstallationMedia: Kubuntu 12.10 "Quantal Quetzal" - Release amd64 (20121017.1) MarkForUpload: True ProcEnviron: LANGUAGE= PATH=(custom, no user) XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set> LANG=uk_UA.UTF-8 SHELL=/bin/bash SourcePackage: xorg Symptom: display UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to raring on 2013-03-16 (38 days ago) ** Affects: udev (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Tags: amd64 apport-bug kubuntu raring ** Package changed: xorg (Ubuntu) => udev (Ubuntu) -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1171848 Title: No possibility to operate Ambient Light Sensor on Latitude D830 because of kernel handles Fn-combination instead of BIOS To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/udev/+bug/1171848/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs