Bug#866397: udev: regression: no escape key on HP ZBook anymore

[Michael Biebl]

Control: severity -1 normal
Control: tags -1 + moreinfo

Am 29.06.2017 um 15:31 schrieb Vincent Danjean:
> Package: udev
> Version: 233-9
> Severity: important
> 
>   After an upgrade a few weeks ago (I do not know which upgrade exactly), I
> noticed that my 'escape' key was not working anymore. I was hit by this
> problem when I use vim...
> 
>   Today, with help from friends, I tried to find the root cause of this bug.
> xev show me that the keycode of my escape key was 198 (ie FK20) instead of 9
> (ie Esc), so the press and release of the key lead to XF86AudioMicMute Keysym
> events instead of Escape Keysym events.
>   So, the problem was coming from the keyscan->keycode association and not the
> keycode->keysym association.
> 
>   Digging more in details, I discovered the hwdb mecanism and I applied this
> patch to /lib/udev/hwdb.d/60-keyboard.hwdb:
> --- 60-keyboard.hwdb.orig	2017-06-29 15:03:24.233223075 +0200
> +++ 60-keyboard.hwdb	2017-06-29 15:13:23.020305698 +0200
> @@ -527,7 +527,7 @@
>  evdev:atkbd:dmi:bvn*:bvr*:bd*:svnHP*:pnHP*ProBook*4*:pvr*
>  # HP ZBook
>  evdev:atkbd:dmi:bvn*:bvr*:bd*:svnHewlett-Packard*:pnHPZBook*:pvr*
> - KEYBOARD_KEY_81=f20                                    # Fn+F8; Microphone mute button, should be micmute
> + KEYBOARD_KEY_81=esc                                    # Fn+F8; Microphone mute button, should be micmute

Those lines were added a long time ago
https://github.com/systemd/systemd/commit/4b9bb683e

If this broke recently, it doesn't sound like this was a change
triggered by udev. Can you find out which package upgrade causes the
problem?

Martin, you're the expert in this area, can you chime in here?

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