Problem setting keymap on HP nx8220

[Danny Kukawka]

On Dienstag, 24. Juni 2008, Toni Röyhy wrote:
> Hi
>
> I tried to follow the instructions on
> http://people.freedesktop.org/~hughsient/quirk/quirk-keymap-try.html
>
> and I got these results:
> >rpm -q hal
>
> hal-0.5.11-2.fc9.i386
>
> >lshal |grep keymap
>
>  info.callouts.add = {'hal-setup-keymap'} (string list)
>  info.capabilities = {'input', 'input.keyboard', 'input.keypad',
> 'input.keys', 'input.keymap', 'button'} (string list)
>  input.keymap.data = {'e001:fn_esc', 'e008:presentation',
> 'e009:battery', 'e00a:f22', 'e059:info'} (string list)
>
> So my understanding is that quirk is correctly added to fdi file, but
> when I look at /var/log/messages after pressing a presentation key for
> example
>
> kernel: atkbd.c: Unknown key released (translated set 2, code 0x88 on
> isa0060/serio0).
> kernel: atkbd.c: Use 'setkeycodes e008 <keycode>' to make it known.
>
> I got these messages. I tried restarting hal, rebooting and still the
> same problem.
>
> If I manually do the setkeycodes e008 113 I got key working in xev

The keycode for KEY_PRESENTATION is 0x1a9 which is at least 425. Currently the 
kernel has/had an problem with setting keycodes over 255. This is fixed in 
current development kernels. Simply try an newer kernel or get the latest 
kernel from kernel.org.

Danny