Re: PROBLEM: asus_nb_wmi sends KEY_BRIGHTNESSDOWN on pressing CAPS Lock and PrntScrn on Zenbook S 13 UX5304VA

[James John]

Hello Hans,

Thank you for your support so far. I really appreciate this.

I have always wanted to contribute to the kernel, so, this is fun for me! :)


The 2 evtest logs show that each brightness up/down keypress
gets reported twice, once by the "ACPI video bus" device and
once bythe "Asus WMI hotkeys" device.

I do not think these are multiple events. There are different. One has 
the value of 0, the other has value of 1.
I am not sure what they mean. I initially thought it could be keydown 
and keyup events, but it is not, because
on pressing the keydown, they are still both reported. I also think the 
desktops handle this, maybe by filtering out
0 values. I use KDE Plasma, and I still have 5% step despite evtest 
reporting these 2 events.


I have applied the last 2 patches.

1. Show no output for capslock / printscreen

Correct. These keys are no longer captured by Asus WMI hotkeys

2. Show KEY_SELECTIVE_SCREENSHOT events for the
   "Screen Capture" hotkey.

I am not sure I am getting KEY_SELECTIVE_SCREENSHOT event for the 
"Screen Capture" hotkey. This is what I get:
Event: time 1697757579.588239, type 4 (EV_MSC), code 4 (MSC_SCAN), value 2a
Event: time 1697757579.588239, type 1 (EV_KEY), code 634 (?), value 1
Event: time 1697757579.588239, -------------- SYN_REPORT ------------
Event: time 1697757579.588244, type 1 (EV_KEY), code 634 (?), value 0
Event: time 1697757579.588244, -------------- SYN_REPORT ------------

And this is what I get for "Screen Capture" hotkey, from the debug you 
placed
[ 1096.691389] asus_wmi: raw event code 0x2a
[ 1096.691446] asus_wmi: raw event code 0xffffffffffffffff
[ 1097.982976] asus_wmi: raw event code 0x2a
[ 1097.983032] asus_wmi: raw event code 0xffffffffffffffff


3. Show no output for brightness up/down,
   yet brightness up/down should still work since
   these are also reported by the "ACPI video bus"

Yes, correct. No output from Asus WMI hotkeys, but there an output from 
Video bus


Thanks

James


On 18/10/2023 19:35, Hans de Goede wrote:
> Hi James,
>
> On 10/18/23 02:17, me@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> > Hi Hans,
> >
> > I hope you are feeling better now.
> > Thank you so much for your support in resolving this.
> >
> > > I assume that the first "BACKLIGHT BUTTON" is the backlight DOWN button ?
> > Yes. Correct.
> >
> >
> > > 2. Can you please run:
> > >
> > > sudo evtest and then select the "ACPI video bus" (or something
> > > similar) device and see if that reports brightness up/down
> > > keypresses?  And then do the same thing for the
> > > "Asus WMI hotkeys" device ? I expect the Asus WMI hotkeys
> > > device to only report brightness up keypresses (after my
> > > hwdb "fix") while I expect brightness-up events to get
> > > reported twice, by both the "ACPI video bus" device and
> > > the "Asus WMI hotkeys" device.
> > Done and attached.
> >
> > > Can you confirm this? This also means that brightness
> > > up will take bigger steps (2 steps per keypress) then
> > > brightness down, right ?
> > I am not sure I understand what you mean here. But I have attached the output here
> The 2 evtest logs show that each brightness up/down keypress
> gets reported twice, once by the "ACPI video bus" device and
> once bythe "Asus WMI hotkeys" device.
>
> This means that in e.g. GNOME the brightness will move
> up / down by 2 steps for each step, reducing the amount
> of steps from 20 to 10, or iow making each step twice
> as big. Especially at the low end of the brightness
> scale this may be an issue since steeping by 5% there
> can already make a big difference and this double
> key press reporting now changes this into stepping
> by 10% at a time.
>
> > After applying your patch, it seems to have fixed the issue!
> Thank you for all the testing and other then the double
> keypress issue + the unknown code messages everything
> now looks good!
>
> I have applied 2 more patches the first one fixes the
> unknown code messages and adds a mapping for the
> "Screen Capture" hotkey. The second test filters out
> the duplicate (duplicate with the "ACPI video bus")
> brightness up/down events.
>
> It would be great if you can add these on top of
> the previous 2 patches and then run one last
> test for me:
>
> Run evtest on the "Asus WMI hotkeys" device this should now:
>
> 1. Show no output for capslock / printscreen
>
> 2. Show KEY_SELECTIVE_SCREENSHOT events for the
>     "Screen Capture" hotkey.
>
> 3. Show no output for brightness up/down,
>     yet brightness up/down should still work since
>     these are also reported by the "ACPI video bus"
>
> It would be great if you can confirm for each of these
> that this behaves as expected with the 2 extra patches
> applied on top of the previous patches.
>
> Regards,
>
> Hans