keymap question

Richard Hughes hughsient at gmail.com
Thu Jul 3 03:42:26 PDT 2008


On Wed, 2008-07-02 at 11:22 +0100, Bastien Nocera wrote:
> On Fri, 2008-06-27 at 12:03 +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I'm trying to add my IBM USB Travel Keyboard with UltraNav keyboard to
> > the keymap so that its media buttons would start to work.
> <snip>
> > and xev reports keycodes:
> > 
> >   174 - vol down
> >   176 - vol up
> >   160 - mute
> 
> These are the normal xkeycodes for those keys. Select a keymap that
> corresponds to your keyboard, and they will just work.
> 
> Richard, could you please add a little something in the quirks page
> explaining that if the keys produce X events, there's nothing to do in
> HAL?

Just as a sanity check that I understand all the interactions -- could
somebody check the diagram I drew here please:
http://rhughes.fedorapeople.org/linux-input-model.png

I'll then add some more verbage to the quirk site. Thanks.

Thanks.

Richard.




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