Extra keyboard buttons

[Bastien Nocera]

On Thu, 2007-04-19 at 23:27 +0100, Richard Hughes wrote:
> With reference to my recent blog post:
> http://hughsient.livejournal.com/23351.html
> 
> I've been doing some research on how some random vendor buttons are
> currently mapped into keycodes. Distros like ubuntu provide the
> hotkey-setup [1] package that match dmi information and then assign keys
> based on the vendor and type. Fedora don't ship this package.
> 
> Maybe this is an idea for hal-info - we are perfectly in scope as we can
> match DMI data trivially and then launch a very small script that just
> runs commands like:
> 
> setkeycodes e018 188
> 
> hal-info can then be trivially updated as new keys are found for new
> laptops.
> 
> So, good idea / bad idea?

Extra scripts should rely on hal-info to provide the information. But I
don't think hal should be calling helper scripts.

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Bastien Nocera <hadess at hadess.net>