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SubjectRe: 2.6.0_test6: CONFIG_I8K produces wrong/no keycodes for special buttons
Massimo Dal Zotto wrote:

>The inspiron 8000 has 4 multimedia buttons, 2 volume buttons and 3 Fn-key
>combinations. Other Dell laptops have only one or two buttons.
>
>The multimedia buttons generate the following raw scancodes which can be
>dumped with showkey -s:
>
> 0xe0 0x01 play
> 0xe0 0x02 stop
> 0xe0 0x03 back
> 0xe0 0x04 forward
>
>Since the raw scancodes are generate by the keyboard like any other key
>they should be handled by the 2.6.0 kernel as in 2.4.x. If this doesn't
>work it is a bug in the kernel. Did you try showkey -s with 2.6.0?
>
This is what i get:
play - <nothing>
Stop -
0xe0 0x22
0xe0 0xa2
back - <nothing>
forward-
0x6a
0xea

>For some obscure reason known only to Dell the volume buttons and the Fn-
>keys are trapped by the SMM BIOS and can be read only by the i8k driver
>which under kernel 2.4.x can be programmed to generate the original raw
>scancodes generated by the keyboard:
>
> 0xe0 0x20 fn+vol_mute
> 0xe0 0x2e vol_up, fn+vol_down
> 0xe0 0x30 vol_up, Fn+vol_up
>
These keys seems to work, but don't produce any keycodes. The same
happens when pressing the (special) Volume-keys.

>(SMM BIOS can be programmed to handle volume buttons as normal keys
>by disabling the Fn- key but then you don't have the Fn- function,
>including bios access and suspend)
>
Suspend and Bios-Setup will work (when accessing the Bios-Setup there is
no way to come back to my system - this worked some time ago).

>Unfortunately the keyboard interface has changed in 2.6.0 and it is not
>possible to generate the 0xe0, 0x0N sequence as in 2.4.x, so this feature
>has been disabled and you must use i8kbuttons instead. If anybody knows
>how to generate the corresponding scancodes in kernel 2.6.0 please let
>me know.
>
Is i8kbuttons usable for the play, stop, back and forward-button? This
would be new to me, AFAIK you can only map the volume-keys.

toral distfiles # i8kbuttons --help
Usage: i8kbuttons [<option>...]

Options:

-v|--verbose
-u|--up <command>
-d|--down <command>
-m|--mute <command>
-r|--repeat <milliseconds>
-t|--timeout <milliseconds>

Thx, Jan

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