problems with keymap entries in FDI-files
Danny Kukawka
danny.kukawka at web.de
Wed Aug 15 15:53:37 PDT 2007
Hi,
while sort and cleanup keymap entries for the new *_outof directives if found
some 'unclear/obscure' issues:
* There are several cases where two scancodes get mapped to the same key or
inversely one scancode mapped to two keys. While may the first case isn't
that problematic, but may not what we want (e.g. in the acer file:
e071:f22/e072:f22), I would say the second case is complete faulty (e.g. in
the dell file: e008:wlan/e008:bluetooth) and useless.
IMO we should at least remove the cases where the same scancode get mapped to
two different keys.
* If I understand the How-To at [1] correct HAL should only contain mappings
for 'unknown scancodes' (... You only need to remap keys using HAL that do
not product valid keycodes (i.e. you get the warning in dmesg) as the others
can be done with a keymap ...).
But if I take a look at several mappings e.g. for the 'HP nc6320', some
IBM/Lenovo or Acer laptops I wonder if all the mappings are really needed,
because e.g. for the HP or a Lenovo T60 I couldn't reproduce the scancodes
(also not if I boot to init=/bin/bash or with e.g. Kubuntu instead of SUSE).
Do I miss or oversee something?
Comments?
Danny
[1] http://people.freedesktop.org/~hughsient/quirk/quirk-keymap-index.html
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