Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 6 Oct 2003 13:42:15 -0400 | From | Georg Nikodym <> | Subject | Re: 2.6.0_test6: CONFIG_I8K produces wrong/no keycodes for special buttons |
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On Mon, 06 Oct 2003 13:00:07 +0200 Jan Schubert <Jan.Schubert@GMX.li> wrote:
> 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? > >
For the keys that show nothing, if you look at /var/log/messages, I think you'll see something like:
> This is what i get: > play - <nothing>
Oct 6 13:39:24 keller kernel: atkbd.c: Unknown key pressed (translated set 2, code 0x176, data 0x1, on isa0060/serio0). Oct 6 13:39:24 keller kernel: atkbd.c: Unknown key released (translated set 2, code 0x176, data 0x81, on isa0060/serio0).
> Stop - > 0xe0 0x22 > 0xe0 0xa2 > back - <nothing>
Oct 6 13:39:29 keller kernel: atkbd.c: Unknown key pressed (translated set 2, code 0x11e, data 0x3, on isa0060/serio0). Oct 6 13:39:29 keller kernel: atkbd.c: Unknown key released (translated set 2, code 0x11e, data 0x83, on isa0060/serio0).
> forward- > 0x6a > 0xea
-g (who's been too lazy to attempt the atkbd.c patchery needed to fix this) [unhandled content-type:application/pgp-signature] | |