The situation is pretty odd. It seems that the camera is a USB device and I think that the hotkey combination is actually being handled by the bios or acpi somehow.
In a 9.04/9.10 system where the camera is already on the boot sequence is slightly different from one where the camera is initially off. Looking in the dmesg output I see the ON boot saying use poll mode and the OFF boot says events will be used, but what exactly is going on I don't know. After boot udevadm monitor shows Fn+F6 events for the ON boot, but is silent for the OFF case. I haven't tried this experiment with the same kernel in 8.10, but I suppose I could. All I do know (as I pointed out above) is that this is not a kernel bug as my 2.6.31-10 kernel works fine booting 8.10 in On/Off modes. I'm willing to carry out experiments etc etc, but I don't think anyone here actually cares. Looking at cyli's output seems to indicate that this might be a udev issue ie the usb is turning on and off, but udev isn't sending out the right events. I will try out his usb experiments tonight. -- Hotkey fn + f6 not detected on an MSI Wind https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/276495 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs