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

[Michael Biebl]

Am 29.06.2017 um 20:29 schrieb Vincent Danjean:
>   Hi,
> 
> Le 29/06/2017 à 17:20, Michael Biebl a écrit :
>> 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
> 
> This is not this commit.

Picked the wrong line from git blame indeed, this is the correct one

https://github.com/systemd/systemd/commit/5104943722

It's been there since v230 so not a recent change.

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