Re: Dell Studio 1555 eject key does not work ( small patch to fix included )

[Islam Amer]

Tim I am running debian,

I think it's the other way round, the mainline kernel is borked (
regarding dell-wmi and eject key ) while the lucid patched kernel
works ( as reported by dell team ).

I guess I could download a Lucid livecd and see if the eject key works
there ( event only as it won't eject the lived while it is running :)
)

On Fri, Jun 11, 2010 at 5:08 PM, Tim Gardner <tim.gardner@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Islam Amer,
>
> You could try a vanilla stable kernel from
> http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v2.6.32.15.5-lucid/ to see if
> we've borked the dell-wmi code.
>
> rtg
>
> On 06/11/2010 07:28 AM, Islam Amer wrote:
>>
>> Rezwanul,
>>
>> I've updated my bios to A11 and installed a new unmodified kernel. The
>> issue still persists that the eject key produces "dell-wmi: Unknown
>> key 0 pressed" in the dmesg output and it doesn't work.
>>
>> It is possible that Ubuntu is including patches to fix stuff. The
>> latest patch for the Lucid kernel at
>>
>> http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/l/linux/linux_2.6.32-22.36.diff.gz
>> does include patches that touch wmi and dell-wmi code, but I can't
>> find a specific change that would fix this issue.
>>
>> I might try to selectively apply patches from it and see if it gets fixed.
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Jun 11, 2010 at 3:15 AM,<Rezwanul_Kabir@xxxxxxxx>  wrote:
>>>
>>> Islam Amer
>>>
>>>   Please try the new BIOS A11 and eliminate any potential BIOS issues.
>>> The BIOS team confirmed that
>>>   they weren't able to reproduce the issue with Ubuntu 10.04 and A11.
>>>
>>> Thanks..
>>>   --rez
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Rezwanul Kabir
>>> Dell Linux Development
>>> 512-725-0766
>>>
>>>
>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>> From: Islam Amer [mailto:pharon@xxxxxxxxx]
>>>> Sent: Thursday, June 10, 2010 6:52 PM
>>>> To: Matthew Garrett
>>>> Cc: Kabir, Rezwanul; linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx;
>>>> platform-driver-x86@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>>> Subject: Re: Dell Studio 1555 eject key does not work ( small
>>>> patch to fix included )
>>>>
>>>> Hello all,
>>>>
>>>> My bios version is A08 , I see that A11 was recently released
>>>> but the changelog doesn't say much.
>>>>
>>>> Which is better, upgrade and hope the problem goes away, or
>>>> wait until we have a fix that is agreed upon ?
>>>>
>>>> Thanks.
>>>>
>>>> On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 9:40 PM, Matthew Garrett
>>>> <mjg59@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>  wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 01:36:56PM -0500,
>>>>
>>>> Rezwanul_Kabir@xxxxxxxx wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Hi Islam Amer
>>>>>>
>>>>>>    I got report that "Ubuntu 10.04 + BIOS A11" was tested and the
>>>>>> "Eject CD" key is working
>>>>>>    as expected. Sorry, I couldn't find any Studio 1555 to
>>>>
>>>> test myself
>>>>>>
>>>>>> and cannot provide you
>>>>>>    with more details.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>     Also, you may try acpi_osi="Windows 2009" kernel
>>>>
>>>> parameter and see if there is any difference.
>>>>>
>>>>> That's the default on any kernel that has this support in dell-wmi.
>>>>> Rez, could you let me know if the proposed patch breaks the spec in
>>>>> ways that are likely to cause problems?
>>>>>
>>>>> --
>>>>> Matthew Garrett | mjg59@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>>>>
>>>>
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