2016-04-19 23:14 GMT-06:00 fixed-term.Oleksij.Rempel <fixed-term.Oleksij.Rempel@xxxxxxxxxxxx>: > > > On 20.04.2016 07:04, Alex Henrie wrote: >> 2016-04-19 15:14 GMT-06:00 Alex Henrie <alexhenrie24@xxxxxxxxx>: >>> Dear kernel developers, >>> >>> I have been trying to use Linux on an Asus Q500A laptop, but ran into >>> a couple of problems: >>> >>> 1. The Caps Lock and Num Lock LEDs do not turn on >>> 2. The volume control keys act like stuck letter keys (see >>> http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2170285 for an example of >>> another Q500A owner complaining about this) >>> >>> I am quite certain that these are both kernel bugs. I contacted the >>> Asus platform driver maintainer, Corentin Chary, but he said that the >>> bugs are more likely problems in the input drivers. If you are a >>> kernel developer interested in looking into them, the Q500A is >>> currently going for about $200-300 on eBay, which is low enough that >>> it would not be a problem at all for me to just buy one and send it to >>> you as a donation. >>> >>> Let me know, and thank you for your work on Linux! >> >> Correction: The Caps Lock LED works, the Num Lock LED does not. There >> is no Scroll Lock LED. > > > Hm... somewhat similar i already did for ASUS Zenbook ux31a. May be it > is about ACPI and not about Input device driver. I can take this challenge. Okay, this is weird: The Q500A-BSI5N04 has the bug, but the Q500A-BHI5N01 does not have the bug. They look identical, and I flashed the same BIOS firmware onto both. Maybe I should send you both models so that you can compare the two... -Alex -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-input" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
