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SubjectRe: 2.6.0_test6: CONFIG_I8K produces wrong/no keycodes for special buttons
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)
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