Re: X450LCP lost abillity to turn the screen off

[Andy Shevchenko]

On Tue, Feb 12, 2019 at 4:31 AM Marcos Paulo de Souza
<marcos.souza.org@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 2/11/19 5:14 PM, JoÃo Paulo Rechi Vita wrote:
> > Hello Marcos,
> > On Sun, Feb 10, 2019 at 5:05 PM Marcos Paulo de Souza
> > <marcos.souza.org@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> > You can check what is being sent by the kernel with evtest, and what
> > is being sent by X with "xinput test <device id>" (and you can find
> > the device id with "xinput list"). And you can re-map it without
> > having to rebuild the kernel using udev's hwdb. But simply re-mapping
> > should not change anything, since userspace does not act on
> > KEY_DISPLAYTOGGLE / KEY_DISPLAY_OFF. If you want to switch back to the
> > old behavior you need to revert "78f3ac76d9e5 platform/x86: asus-wmi:
> > Tell the EC the OS will handle the display off hotkey".
>
> I tried reverting the patch and only recompiling/reinstalling the
> platform/x86 modules, but the problem still happens. My next step will
> be testing agains't 4.20, since my machine was working with 4.12, so I
> might try the major releases first.

When you are going to try older releases, it would be nice to see if
LTS kernels (v4.14.y, v4.19.y from Linux stable tree [1]) behave
differently

[1]: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git/

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With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko