problem with laptop keyboards

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Alessandro
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A rejoint: 05/08/2015

Hello all,
i'm a new gnu/linux users. In the past i have used it several times but since i have bought my new laptop i have decided to use gnu/linux only and leave windows forever. I usually have not any problems with Trisquel, but on this laptop i have 2 problems that i can't fit and I hope that someone can help me:

1) up, down, right arrow keys does not work. When i use terminal i'm using " 8 , 4, 2, 6" with bloc num instead, but there's some situations in which i need arrow keys, and this is the most relevant issue and really need help

2) the other problems, not so important, is that i can't adjust the screen backlight (i usually use xbacklight, not working this time)

lembas
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A rejoint: 05/13/2010

Hi there and congrats!

1) If you open a terminal window and inputxevdoes it react when you punch those arrows?

2) What's your output oflscpi

Alessandro
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A rejoint: 05/08/2015

hello, tahnk you for your answer, my lspci is

00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Atom Processor Z36xxx/Z37xxx Series SoC Transaction Register (rev 0e)
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Atom Processor Z36xxx/Z37xxx Series Graphics & Display (rev 0e)
00:13.0 SATA controller: Intel Corporation Device 0f23 (rev 0e)
00:14.0 USB controller: Intel Corporation Atom Processor Z36xxx/Z37xxx Series USB xHCI (rev 0e)
00:1a.0 Encryption controller: Intel Corporation Atom Processor Z36xxx/Z37xxx Series Trusted Execution Engine (rev 0e)
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation Atom Processor Z36xxx/Z37xxx Series High Definition Audio Controller (rev 0e)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Device 0f48 (rev 0e)
00:1c.2 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Device 0f4c (rev 0e)
00:1c.3 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Device 0f4e (rev 0e)
00:1d.0 USB controller: Intel Corporation Atom Processor Z36xxx/Z37xxx Series USB EHCI (rev 0e)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation Atom Processor Z36xxx/Z37xxx Series Power Control Unit (rev 0e)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation Device 0f12 (rev 0e)
02:00.0 Network controller: Qualcomm Atheros QCA9565 / AR9565 Wireless Network Adapter (rev 01)
03:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet Controller (rev 0c)

when i run xev

in terminal : i have reactions with left, down, right arrow kesys, nothing with up key
in windows : the square does not move

i forgot to say that left key is the only one that properly works.

lembas
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A rejoint: 05/13/2010

1) There at least used to be a way to make custom key bindings hidden somewhere in the system settings. (If that's gone we can use the xbindkeys command from the package with the same name) Once you find it you could install the xdotool package and bind up arrow to the command "xdotool key Up"

(The other key names are unsurprisingly Down, Left and Right)

2) What's your output offind /sys -iname brightness

Alessandro
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A rejoint: 05/08/2015

/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:02.0/drm/card0/card0-eDP-1/intel_backlight/brightness
/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:02.0/backlight/acpi_video0/brightness
/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1c.2/0000:02:00.0/leds/ath9k-phy0/brightness
/sys/module/acer_wmi/parameters/brightness

lembas
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A rejoint: 05/13/2010

That ath9k is unrelated, not sure about the others. If you can change the brightness somehow e.g. a key binding do so and see if the contents of those 3 files changes.

Then you could try changing the contents yourself to see if that changes brightness. (note that you can't sudo echo blabla > file, you need to sudo sh -c 'echo blabla > file')

Alessandro
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A rejoint: 05/08/2015

the strange fact is that if i try an Ubuntu or Opensuse live cd, the brightness works by default.

lembas
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A rejoint: 05/13/2010

They include the binary blobs.

Alessandro
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A rejoint: 05/08/2015

ok 1st problem is gone, i just did a sudo dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg and reboot .

still persist the 2nd issue :( (backlight)