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

[Islam Amer <pharon@gmail.com>]

Dear Tim,

I tried the mainline kernel 2.6.32-0206321505-generic as you suggested
and the eject key doesn't work but it also doesn't produce the error
message in dmesg.

I then tried the 2.6.32-22.36-generic from
http://packages.ubuntu.com/lucid/linux-image-2.6.32-22-generic and I
found the eject key working fine.

So there is something in the ubuntu patchset that fixes this issue.

On Fri, Jun 11, 2010 at 5:23 PM, Islam Amer <pharon@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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@canonical.com> 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@dell.com>  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@gmail.com]
>>>>> Sent: Thursday, June 10, 2010 6:52 PM
>>>>> To: Matthew Garrett
>>>>> Cc: Kabir, Rezwanul; linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org;
>>>>> platform-driver-x86@vger.kernel.org; akpm@linux-foundation.org
>>>>> 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@srcf.ucam.org>  wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 01:36:56PM -0500,
>>>>>
>>>>> Rezwanul_Kabir@Dell.com 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@srcf.ucam.org
>>>>>>
>>>>>
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>>
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>>
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