Re: [REGRESSION] Toshiba Fn keys + lidswitch

[Rafael J. Wysocki]

On Sun, May 31, 2026 at 10:35 PM Nick <nick@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On 2026-05-31 11:17, John Veness wrote:
> > On 30/05/2026 14:34, johannes.goede@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> >> In case you've not seen it yet, Rafael send out the test patch
> >> publicly later that day in another email in this thread:
> >>
> >> https://lore.kernel.org/linux-acpi/12896447.O9o76ZdvQC@rafael.j.wysocki/
> >>
> >> Regards,
> >>
> >> Hans
> >
> > Thanks for the pointer, and sorry for missing that! I had only been
> > looking in the archives of platform-driver-x86@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx which
> > for
> > some reason didn't receive the patch.
> >
> > John
>
> On 2026-05-31 11:25, John Veness wrote:
> > I'm not Nick, but I have tested the patch here on my old Toshiba Tecra
> > Z50-A
> > and it seems to have worked - I now have Fn+keys working fine, after
> > losing them
> > in a recent kernel update (apart from Fn+3 for volume down, and Fn+4
> > for volume up,
> > which for some reason continued to work when the others didn't).
> >
> > John
>
> Same here. All my Fn keys work except for Esc through F8. Glad Rafael's
> patch worked for you too! There's a newer copy of it at
> https://lore.kernel.org/linux-acpi/2046403.PYKUYFuaPT@rafael.j.wysocki/T/#t
> by the way.

Thank you both for testing!

The patch is there in 7.1-rc6, so it should propagate to -stable
kernels over time.