Display switching not possible on HP Pavillion dv3510nr notebook

Bug #555528 reported by Ryan S Kingsbury
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Bug Description

Binary package hint: xserver-xorg-video-nouveau

When running the noveau driver on an HP Pavillion dv3510nr Notebook (running Lucid Lynx beta 1 x64), it is not possible to switch display modes using the laptop's FN+F4 key. This notebook has an NVIDIA 9300M graphics card. The modes can be changed with the monitor settings application, however.

Display switching also does not work using the restricted NVIDIA drivers. In this case, it is possible to control the display mode using the NVIDIA X-server settings application, but any change requires restarting the X server.

In either case, if I activate the external monitor and turn off the notebook LCD, then disconnect the external monitor, the LCD does NOT automatically reactive. This means that I have to manually re-enable the notebook screen before disconnecting.

Display switching using FN+F4 worked as expected in Karmic and Jaunty, and the notebook screen automatically activated when an external monitor was disconnected.

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description: updated
Bryce Harrington (bryce)
tags: added: karmic
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Bryce Harrington (bryce) wrote :

Hi Ryan,

Please attach the output of `lspci -vvnn` and `dmesg`, and attach your /var/log/Xorg.0.log (and maybe Xorg.0.log.old) file from after reproducing this issue. If you're using a custom /etc/X11/xorg.conf please attach that as well.

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tags: added: needs-xorglog
tags: added: needs-lspci-vvnn
Changed in xserver-xorg-video-nouveau (Ubuntu):
status: New → Incomplete
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Ryan S Kingsbury (ryanskingsbury) wrote :
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Ryan S Kingsbury (ryanskingsbury) wrote :
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Ryan S Kingsbury (ryanskingsbury) wrote :
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Ryan S Kingsbury (ryanskingsbury) wrote :

On further investigation, it's possible that this is an ACPI code binding issue. I noticed that when I push FN+F4 (my display switch key) in terminal or a word processor, I get "p" just as if I were typing that key. Maybe it's as simple as reassigning the function key to the appropriate keycode.

Bryce Harrington (bryce)
tags: removed: needs-xorglog
tags: removed: needs-lspci-vvnn
Changed in xserver-xorg-video-nouveau (Ubuntu):
status: Incomplete → Confirmed
Bryce Harrington (bryce)
tags: added: hardy
Bryce Harrington (bryce)
tags: added: lucid
papukaija (papukaija)
tags: added: regression-release
removed: display hardy karmic nvidia regression
tags: added: karmic
tags: added: hardy
summary: - Display switching not possible on HP Pavillion dv3510nr notebook [Karmic
- Regression]
+ Display switching not possible on HP Pavillion dv3510nr notebook
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robu (robu) wrote :
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Bryce Harrington (bryce) wrote :

Yes, this is a hotkey issue, not really a video driver bug. See http://wiki.ubuntu.com/Hotkeys for directions on troubleshooting these kinds of problems. Meanwhile I'll bump this over to the kernel.

If you've had a chance to retest with newer Ubuntu and find it no longer occurs, please report back here about that.

affects: xserver-xorg-video-nouveau (Ubuntu) → linux (Ubuntu)
Changed in linux (Ubuntu):
status: Confirmed → Incomplete
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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

[Expired for linux (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60 days.]

Changed in linux (Ubuntu):
status: Incomplete → Expired
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