Hi,
I own an HP Envy x360 laptop with Ryzen 5 3500U. I’ve already resolved most of the annoying issues I’ve had with it, but there’s this one thing I have no idea how to approach.
When I turn on my computer, the action keys are sometimes enabled by default despite Action Keys Mode being explicitly disabled in the BIOS. I can usually resolve that problem by rebooting, because say 75% of the time the keyboard behaves as expected and the keys function as F1-F12.
I haven’t found anyone describing a similar problem yet, hence my question - what could be the cause of such behavior and what can be done to fix it?
Thank you!
I don’t know what info to provide in this case, but I suppose inxi -Fxxxz is good for start:
System:
Kernel: 5.8.6-1-MANJARO x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: N/A
Desktop: KDE Plasma 5.19.5 tk: Qt 5.15.0 wm: kwin_x11 dm: SDDM
Distro: Manjaro Linux
Machine:
Type: Convertible System: HP product: HP ENVY x360 Convertible 13-ar0xxx
v: N/A serial: <filter> Chassis: type: 31 serial: <filter>
Mobo: HP model: 85DE v: 41.36 serial: <filter> UEFI: AMI v: F.19
date: 12/26/2019
Battery:
ID-1: BAT0 charge: 39.5 Wh condition: 52.5/52.5 Wh (100%) volts: 15.9/15.4
model: 333-2B-49-A KC04053XL type: Li-ion serial: <filter>
status: Discharging
Device-1: hid-0018:04F3:23AE.0001-battery model: ELAN2514:00 04F3:23AE
serial: N/A charge: N/A status: N/A
CPU:
Topology: Quad Core model: AMD Ryzen 5 3500U with Radeon Vega Mobile Gfx
bits: 64 type: MT MCP arch: Zen+ rev: 1 L2 cache: 2048 KiB
flags: avx avx2 lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 sse4a ssse3 svm
bogomips: 33551
Speed: 1252 MHz min/max: 1400/2100 MHz boost: enabled Core speeds (MHz):
1: 1286 2: 1272 3: 1222 4: 1222 5: 1223 6: 1224 7: 1228 8: 1223
Graphics:
Device-1: AMD Picasso vendor: Hewlett-Packard driver: amdgpu v: kernel
bus ID: 04:00.0 chip ID: 1002:15d8
Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.8 compositor: kwin_x11 driver: amdgpu
FAILED: ati unloaded: modesetting alternate: fbdev,vesa
resolution: 1920x1080~60Hz s-dpi: 96
OpenGL: renderer: AMD RAVEN (DRM 3.38.0 5.8.6-1-MANJARO LLVM 10.0.1)
v: 4.6 Mesa 20.1.7 direct render: Yes
Audio:
Device-1: AMD Raven/Raven2/Fenghuang HDMI/DP Audio vendor: Hewlett-Packard
driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus ID: 04:00.1 chip ID: 1002:15de
Device-2: AMD Raven/Raven2/FireFlight/Renoir Audio Processor
vendor: Hewlett-Packard driver: snd_rn_pci_acp3x v: kernel bus ID: 04:00.5
chip ID: 1022:15e2
Device-3: AMD Family 17h HD Audio vendor: Hewlett-Packard
driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus ID: 04:00.6 chip ID: 1022:15e3
Sound Server: ALSA v: k5.8.6-1-MANJARO
Network:
Device-1: Realtek RTL8822BE 802.11a/b/g/n/ac WiFi adapter
vendor: Hewlett-Packard driver: rtw_8822be v: N/A port: f000
bus ID: 02:00.0 chip ID: 10ec:b822
IF: wlan0 state: up mac: <filter>
Drives:
Local Storage: total: 476.94 GiB used: 110.83 GiB (23.2%)
ID-1: /dev/nvme0n1 model: KBG30ZMV512G KIOXIA size: 476.94 GiB
speed: 15.8 Gb/s lanes: 2 serial: <filter> rev: ADHA0102 scheme: GPT
Partition:
ID-1: / size: 255.08 GiB used: 110.12 GiB (43.2%) fs: ext4
dev: /dev/nvme0n1p5
Swap:
ID-1: swap-1 type: partition size: 16.00 GiB used: 664.5 MiB (4.1%)
priority: -2 dev: /dev/nvme0n1p6
Sensors:
System Temperatures: cpu: 46.5 C mobo: 40.0 C gpu: amdgpu temp: 46 C
Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A
Info:
Processes: 288 Uptime: 1h 02m Memory: 5.74 GiB used: 4.83 GiB (84.1%)
Init: systemd v: 246 Compilers: gcc: 10.2.0 clang: 10.0.1 Packages:
pacman: 1617 Shell: Bash v: 5.0.18 running in: konsole inxi: 3.1.05
The action keys are active right from the start, so the only I’m touching before is the power button. I tried all sorts of wild key combinations involving Fn to see if it there’s any that could cause it to become inverted, but with no luck.
