[Pkg-acpi-devel] Bug#612246: acpid: Keyboard "Down" key unresponsive

[Andrés Villarroel Acosta]

Package: acpid
Version: 1:2.0.7-1
Severity: normal


Sometimes, the key "Down" becomes unresponsive, or sometimes it is magically pressed, as seen on this xev log, I just opened xev after a reboot, I have not pressed any key besides the user password on the login screen. and "xev" on a gnome-terminal window.

KeyPress event, serial 33, synthetic NO, window 0x2600001,
    root 0x10e, subw 0x0, time 483652, (64,-18), root:(1141,575),
    state 0x0, keycode 116 (keysym 0xff54, Down), same_screen YES,
    XLookupString gives 0 bytes: 
    XmbLookupString gives 0 bytes: 
    XFilterEvent returns: False

KeyRelease event, serial 33, synthetic NO, window 0x2600001,
    root 0x10e, subw 0x0, time 483792, (64,-18), root:(1141,575),
    state 0x0, keycode 116 (keysym 0xff54, Down), same_screen YES,
    XLookupString gives 0 bytes: 
    XFilterEvent returns: False

Or sometimes, pressing the key does nothing and sometimes the key remains pressed after using it a few times.

I have an Acer Aspire 5050 (5050-5954) laptop. I'm attaching [1] [2], the dmesg, and the messages, from the last boot.

The following bug pointed me that it may be an acpid problem, I don't think is a hardware problem, since I had previously Fedora 13 installed, without having this issue.

 * #558656 - http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2009/11/thrd4.html#01695

[1] - http://paste.debian.net/106734/
[2] - http://paste.debian.net/106735/

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 6.0
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages acpid depends on:
ii  libc6                   2.11.2-10        Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii  lsb-base                3.2-23.2squeeze1 Linux Standard Base 3.2 init scrip
ii  module-init-tools       3.12-1           tools for managing Linux kernel mo

Versions of packages acpid recommends:
ii  acpi-support-base             0.137-5    scripts for handling base ACPI eve

acpid suggests no packages.

-- no debconf information