laptop key quirks

[Valent Turkovic]

On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 11:44 AM, Valent Turkovic
<valent.turkovic at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>  I need a little help in order to make sense of keyboard quirks.
>
>  I have HP dv6426 laptop and it has 2 keys that show up in dmesg log,
>  but standard media keys (next, previous, play, volume up/down) aren't.
>
>  The problem is that those keys are configured wrong so "Stop" button
>  lovers the volume and some keys don't work.
>
>  How can I find out their scancodes and how do I label them in:
>  /usr/share/hal/fdi/information/10freedesktop/30-keymap-hp.fdi ?
>
>  If I understood the quirks page the idea is to edit keymap files so
>  that all keys JustWork on laptops. On mine most work but aren't
>  configred correctly and 2 aren't recognized. I would like to help and
>  fix this issue so that on Fedora 9 all my buttons work "Out of the
>  box" after install.
>
>  What are the names for "Next", "Previous", "Play/pause", "Stop",
>  "Mute", "Vol Up" and "Vol Down" buttons?
>
>  Cheers,
>  Valent.
>
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If I wasn't clear in explaining my issue please just say which part is
unclear and I will try to better explain it.

Valent.

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