Messages in this thread | | | From | Dmitry Torokhov <> | Subject | Re: multimedia keys on dell inspiron 8200s. | Date | Fri, 24 Feb 2006 22:57:53 -0500 |
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On Thursday 23 February 2006 20:49, Dave Jones wrote: > We've been carrying this patch in Fedora for way too long. > So long, I've forgotten a lot of the history. > > Aparently, it makes multimedia buttons on Dell Inspiron 8200's > produce keycodes. The only reference to this I found was > at http://linux.siprell.com/, but I don't know if that's its origin. >
Dave,
This patch was refused before. Any additional/non-standard mapping is to be done in userspace (you need to properly adjust xorg.conf anyway):
http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2817#c4
> ------- Additional Comment #4 From Vojtech Pavlik 2005-07-03 00:19 ------- > I will not accept this patch (or any similar patch) to extend the > atkbd.c mapping table - only standard scancodes are allowed there. The > table is easily modified from userspace, and that is the way to go. > > In the past I tried to fill the table with all the entries, but found > out that there are two or three keyboards competing for every position > in the scancode table, with a different keycode.
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