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[Bug 801106] Re: Fn-key setting reset after resume of Thinkpad Edge E220S

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From: "Christopher M. Penalver" <christopher.m.penalver@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 05 Dec 2014 09:03:21 -0000
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Chow Loong Lin, thank you for reporting this bug to Ubuntu. Natty reached EOL on October 28, 2012.
See this document for currently supported Ubuntu releases: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Releases

Is this reproducible in the latest release of Ubuntu via
http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/daily-live/current/ ?

If so, please execute the following via a terminal in order for the necessary debugging information to be attached:
apport-collect 801106

** Package changed: pm-utils (Ubuntu) => linux (Ubuntu)

** Changed in: linux (Ubuntu)
   Importance: Undecided => Low

** Changed in: linux (Ubuntu)
       Status: Confirmed => Incomplete

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Title:
  Fn-key setting reset after resume of Thinkpad Edge E220S

Status in linux package in Ubuntu:
  Incomplete

Bug description:
  Some background information:
  The Thinkpad Edge E220S has one of those ridiculous keyboard designs that inverts the behaviour of the Fn key with the top row of the keyboard (F1-F12), i.e. to get an actual F1 keystroke, you need to hold down the F1 key. This behaviour is configurable in the BIOS. In my case, I have configured it so that I need to hold the Fn key to access the special functions, but not for the actual F1-12 keypresses.

  Problem:
  After a resume from suspend-to-RAM, the behaviour of the keyboard reverts to the factory setting, i.e. Fn key required to be held down to get the F1-12 keypresses. I reckon this is either due to a broken BIOS or perhaps something that wasn't done to restore the correct behaviour after resume. 

  Workaround:
  Hibernate the machine and resume.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
  Package: pm-utils 1.4.1-7
  Uname: Linux 2.6.39-ck1-hyper1 x86_64
  Architecture: amd64
  Date: Thu Jun 23 19:17:38 2011
  PackageArchitecture: all
  ProcEnviron:
   LANGUAGE=en_SG:en
   PATH=(custom, user)
   LANG=en_SG.utf8
   SHELL=/bin/zsh
  SourcePackage: pm-utils
  UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to natty on 2011-04-24 (60 days ago)

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