[patch] quirks and keymap for Acer TravelMate 430

[Danny Kukawka]

On Mittwoch, 24. Oktober 2007, Mau wrote:
> Patch tested on an Acer TravelMate 435LMi laptop with current Debian Sid
> (hal 0.5.10-1).
>
> Please note that:
> - in order to get all the scancodes from the keys either the acerhk
> (poll=0) or the omnibook (ectype=1) module is needed; unfortunately a
> fully supporting project doesn't exist for this laptop:
> - the omnibook module (http://omnibook.sourceforge.net/) is a live
> project; it enables the missing hotkeys, allows cpu temperature and fan
> monitoring and can get display brightness (but can't set it: the value
> is stored but brightness doesn't change accordingly until one of the
> brightness keys is pressed) via /proc/omnibook/; the mail LED is not
> managed and the fan policy doesn't seem coherent with the actual policy
> (but I'd need further testing in order to try different BIOS settings);
> - the acerhk module
> (http://www.cakey.de/acerhk/archives/acerhk-0.5.35.tar.bz2) allows only
> hotkeys and mail LED control; while this module offers a way to control
> the wireless and bluetooth LEDs via /proc/driver/acerhk/, echoing to
> those files does not change the state of the wireless LED; the acerhk
> development seems almost abandoned.

@Carlos: any comments on the keymapping part?

Danny