On Wednesday 24 June 2015 13:18:25 Michał Kępień wrote: > > Maybe we need to somehow enable receiving such events? > > ACPI method WED0, which should enable event collection, is automatically > invoked when dell-wmi is loaded. Some WMI implementations (e.g. Asus) > require special WMI method calls to enable hotkey event collection, but > these should be visible in the MOF and they're not in this case. > > I suspect this is simply a firmware issue that the vendor works around > in Windows using some mysterious hacks. It already happened before [1] > and thus I share your lack of faith in pushing this matter any further > until we hear from Dell... > > [1] http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-acpi/msg34577.html > Can you try to load wmi.ko with params debug_event=1 and debug_dump_wdg=1 if you can see something in dmesg? Maybe we really need some hack/hook if this is firmware issue... -- Pali Rohár pali.rohar@xxxxxxxxx -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe platform-driver-x86" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
