[Bug 539477] Re: Video out hot key sends super + p + return on many upcoming Dell & HP systems

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** Changed in: gnome-settings-daemon
Importance: Unknown => Medium

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[Jean-Baptiste Lallement]

** Tags removed: regression-potential

[Martin Pitt]

Upstream g-s-d has a patch for this now which will need some cleanup for
trunk, but should do fine for maverick.

** Changed in: linux (Ubuntu)
Status: Confirmed => Invalid

** Changed in: gnome-settings-daemon (Ubuntu)
Status: Confirmed => Triaged

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[Kevin Krafthefer]

** Changed in: oem-priority
Assignee: (unassigned) => Canonical Platform QA Team (canonical-platform-qa)

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[Pedro Villavicencio]

Based on the comment from Martin i'm approving the nomination for
Maverick, thanks all.

** Also affects: gnome-settings-daemon (Ubuntu Maverick)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New

** Also affects: linux (Ubuntu Maverick)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New

** Changed in: gnome-settings-daemon (Ubuntu Maverick)
Status: New => Triaged

** Changed in: gnome-settings-daemon (Ubuntu Maverick)
Importance: Undecided => Low

** Changed in: gnome-settings-daemon (Ubuntu Maverick)
Assignee: (unassigned) => Canonical Desktop Team (canonical-desktop-team)

** Changed in: oem-priority
Assignee: Canonical Platform QA Team (canonical-platform-qa) => (unassigned)

** Changed in: linux (Ubuntu Maverick)
Status: New => Invalid

[Pedro Villavicencio]

** Changed in: gnome-settings-daemon (Ubuntu Maverick)

Assignee: Canonical Desktop Team (canonical-desktop-team) => Martin Pitt (pitti)

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** Changed in: gnome-settings-daemon
Status: Confirmed => Fix Released

[Martin Pitt]

The upstream patches are rather intrusive, they aren't really
appropriate for SRUing. Mike's patch looks more suitable for an SRU. Has
this ever been tested on the maverick package? I prepared a test package
for maverick in my SRU test PPA (https://aunchpad.net/~pitti/+archive
/sru-test), could someone please install that on an affected system and
check whether it works? If so, I'll upload it to maverick-proposed.

** Changed in: gnome-settings-daemon (Ubuntu Maverick)

Status: Triaged => In Progress

** Changed in: gnome-settings-daemon (Ubuntu)

Status: Triaged => In Progress

** Changed in: gnome-settings-daemon (Ubuntu)

Assignee: (unassigned) => Martin Pitt (pitti)

[Kai Jauch]

gnome-settings-daemon 2.32.0-0ubuntu3.1~test1 from your PPA works fine
on my Dell Latitude E6400 (BIOS version A20, which is not the latest one
available) with Maverick.

Fn+F8 cycles through the different output combinations and I didn't see
any keypresses passed to active text fields (neither characters nor
returns).

[Martin Pitt]

Thanks! Uploaded to maverick-proposed, it needs someone else from
~ubuntu-sru to review/ack now.

[Colin Watson]

Accepted gnome-settings-daemon into maverick-proposed, the package will
build now and be available in a few hours. Please test and give feedback
here. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for
documentation how to enable and use -proposed. Thank you in advance!

** Changed in: gnome-settings-daemon (Ubuntu Maverick)

Status: In Progress => Fix Committed

** Tags added: verification-needed

[Chris Van Hoof]

** Changed in: oem-priority
Assignee: (unassigned) => Chris Van Hoof (vanhoof)

** Changed in: oem-priority
Status: Confirmed => Fix Committed

[Kamal Mostafa]

I confirm that gnome-settings-daemon (2.32.0-0ubuntu3.1) in maverick-
proposed fixes the problem on Dell Studio 1558. Monitor output
switching behaves correctly and no more stray "Super+p" is injected.
Thanks!

[Leonid Malashev]

I'm using Ubuntu 10.10 (maverick) on my laptop HP Probook 4520s and I have a similar problem, but switching between monitors with a combination of keys Fn + F4.
Is it possible to solve for my laptop?

Thanks in advance.

[Kent Baxley]

Confirmed that this update fixes the issue on a Dell Latitude E4310 as
well as other Latitude models.

[Don Murray]

Updated /etc/default/grub as described in #47. This work-around fixed
Fn+F8 on a Dell M4400 (BIOS A16) running 2.6.32-25-generic.

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[Martin Pitt]

** Tags added: verification-done
** Tags removed: verification-needed

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[Martin Pitt]

** Also affects: gnome-settings-daemon (Ubuntu Natty)
Importance: Low
Assignee: Martin Pitt (pitti)
Status: In Progress

** Also affects: linux (Ubuntu Natty)
Importance: Undecided
Status: Invalid

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This bug was fixed in the package gnome-settings-daemon -
2.32.0-0ubuntu3.1

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gnome-settings-daemon (2.32.0-0ubuntu3.1) maverick-proposed; urgency=low

* Add 45_support_new_video_key.patch: Have "Super+P" trigger a video mode
switch. Newer Dell and HP systems have a rather broken BIOS (due to a
misunderstanding of the spec) which causes FN+F8 to send the literal
Super+P scan codes instead of a proper KEY_VIDEOMODE scan code.
Patch by Mike Terry, thanks! (LP: #539477)
-- Martin Pitt <marti...@ubuntu.com> Fri, 12 Nov 2010 11:38:29 +0100

** Changed in: gnome-settings-daemon (Ubuntu Maverick)

Status: Fix Committed => Fix Released

[Chris Van Hoof]

** Changed in: oem-priority

Status: Fix Committed => Fix Released

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[Sakumatti Luukkonen]

Just a heads up,

I use Xmonad as the Gnome window manager and this patch somewhat broke
Xmonad for me. Xmonad, by default, uses a combination of "Mod+p" (what
"Mod" is is configurable, in my case I've set it to the Super_L) to open
the Gnome run dialog. So after getting the latest updates, pressing
"Super+p" just flashes the screen briefly and does not open the Gnome
run application dialog, as it did before. I assume that this is the new
assumed behavior, related to video modes.

This machine is _not_ a Dell or a HP laptop. It's a self-built desktop
with Asus P5Q, Intel Q9550, Nvidia GTX 260 using the Nvidia proprietary
drivers.

So is there any way to disable this new behavior, or is it really hard-
coded to gnome-settings-daemon? I can live with having to use a
different key combination to start programs, but would really like to
use "Super+p" in the future too, as my fingers are somewhat used to that
particular combination.

[Frank]

And another heads up,

I have a Dell Studio 1558 and use Gnome with Gnome-Do. I couple of days ago I connected an external monitor for the first time and maybe also tried Fn+F1 to activate the VGA port. After doing that (and rebooting various times) Super+P does not launch Gnome-Do anymore as I configured it before but only removes my mouse arrow for parts of a second. If start Gnome-Do through the menu, change the key to start Gnome-Do to e.g. to Super+J, close Gnome-Do, reopen and configure it back to Super+P it works again. When I then use Fn+F1 it also opens Gnome-Do.
Unfortunately this all only lasts until the next reboot and then I can start reconfiguring Gnome-Do once again.

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[Shimon Rura]

Sakumatti Luukkonen: I had a similar problem -- I use Super+p frequently
as a custom keyboard binding (switching workspaces). Since my latest
apt-get upgrade this resulted in screen flicker or unwanted resolution
changes, as well as preventing the keypress from reaching my window
manager. Thanks for helping me narrow down the issue to gnome-settings-
daemon!

I found the following workaround. Using gconf-editor, find the following conf key:
/apps/gnome_settings_daemon/plugins/xrandr/active
And set it to false (not checked). The change should be effective immediately after the edit.

This may disable other useful behavior, but I haven't personally noticed
any ill effects. I could imagine it might impact settings proper display
settings on login, though.

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[Frank]

Shimon, thanks for this advise which I just tried and at least I have
Gnome-Do catch my Super+p again. Fn+F1 obviously still emitts the same
code (why should that change) and opens Gnome-Do but I can live with
that. Thanks!

[fantasai]

I use Super+P for switching windows, and the fix here broke that.
Comment #64 lets me work around that, but it seems like the wrong way to
fix the problem.

[thedward]

I am another victim of the chosen fix.

I use Super+P as a custom binding.

Could this at least be made configurable?

I've recompiled without the patch, but I hope
I don't have to maintain my own version.

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Video out hot key sends super + p + return on many upcoming Dell & HP systems

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** Changed in: gnome-settings-daemon (Ubuntu Natty)

Status: In Progress => Fix Committed

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** Branch linked: lp:~ubuntu-desktop/gnome-settings-daemon/ubuntu

[Iain Murray]

Again, the super+p keybinding is broken for all user applications when
running gnone-settings-daemon, and the option to fix the problem is not
discoverable (and may have other side effects). I disabled all the
keybindings in gnome-keybinding-properties and performed various other
hair-pulling before discovering the cause was this "fix". The committed
patch causes a frustrating regression.

[fantasai]

Filed https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-settings-
daemon/+bug/694910 as regression.

[Launchpad Bug Tracker]

This bug was fixed in the package gnome-settings-daemon -

2.32.1-0ubuntu3

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gnome-settings-daemon (2.32.1-0ubuntu3) natty; urgency=low

[ Sebastien Bacher ]
* debian/rules: list the objects to build before the libraries to fix the
build issues which was workarounded in the previous upload (lp: #676519)

[ Martin Pitt ]

* Add 45_support_new_video_key.patch: Have "Super+P" trigger a video mode
switch. Newer Dell and HP systems have a rather broken BIOS (due to a
misunderstanding of the spec) which causes FN+F8 to send the
literal Super+P scan codes instead of a proper KEY_VIDEOMODE scan
code. Patch by Mike Terry, thanks! (LP: #539477)

-- Martin Pitt <marti...@ubuntu.com> Sun, 09 Jan 2011 07:13:47 -0600

** Changed in: gnome-settings-daemon (Ubuntu Natty)

Status: Fix Committed => Fix Released

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** Branch linked: lp:ubuntu/gnome-settings-daemon