Extensa 5220

[Danny Kukawka]

On Donnerstag, 29. November 2007, Thomas Ilnseher wrote:
> Am Mittwoch, den 28.11.2007, 17:40 +0000 schrieb Carlos Corbacho:
> > On Tuesday 11 September 2007 16:14:57 Thomas Ilnseher wrote:
> > > I got this new laptop, with a lot of extra buttons on it.
> > > I tried to write the fdi file according to the info on:
> > > http://people.freedesktop.org/~hughsient/quirk/quirk-keymap-report.html
> > >
> > > but it doesn't work. Any help is appreciated.
> >
> > Can you elaborate a bit further on "doesn't work"?
>
> I patched the file on my notebook, fiddled in hal-0.5.10rc-something,
> rebooted, pressed these keys, and looked at dmesg. Still, those 'use
> setkeycode' messages appeared. Also, by doing 'lshal | grep key', I
> wasn't able to see any input.keymap.data values.
>
> A lot of other things ceased working also, so I decided to go back to
> hal-0.5.9 from my distro. It might be the case that I did something
> wrong when installing hal-0.5.10, though.
>
> I recently noticed hal-0.5.10 appearing in portage, albeit with a hard
> mask. once this hard mask disappears, I'll give it a try.
>
> > On Wednesday 28 November 2007 15:59:43 Danny Kukawka wrote:
> > > @Carlos: Could you verify this patch? You are more familiar with the
> > > Acer machines.
> >
> > Here goes.
> >
> > On Tuesday 11 September 2007 16:14:57 Thomas Ilnseher wrote:
> > > diff --git a/fdi/information/10freedesktop/30-keymap-acer.fdi
> > > b/fdi/information/10freedesktop/30-keymap-acer.fdi index
> > > bcce56d..c59bc8e 100644
> > > --- a/fdi/information/10freedesktop/30-keymap-acer.fdi
> > > +++ b/fdi/information/10freedesktop/30-keymap-acer.fdi
> > > @@ -7,6 +7,29 @@
> > >      <match key="@input.originating_device:info.linux.driver"
> > > string="atkbd">
> > >
> > >        <match
> > > key="/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/computer:system.hardware.vendor"
> > > prefix="Acer"> +        <match
> > > key="/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/computer:system.hardware.product"
> > > prefix="Extensa">
> >
> > This is wrong - there is now an Extensa section in 30-keymap-acer.fdi
> > (between 'Aspire' and 'Ferrari' - the list is alphabetically ordered);
> > please add your 5220 entry to that section.
>
> will do

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Any news here? Could you send a new patch?

Danny