laptop key quirks

[Valent Turkovic]

On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 2:00 PM, Valent Turkovic
<valent.turkovic at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 21, 2008 at 10:35 AM, Richard Hughes <hughsient at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> > On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 10:44 AM, Valent Turkovic
>  >
>  > <valent.turkovic at gmail.com> wrote:
>  >
>  > >  How can I find out their scancodes and how do I label them in:
>  >  >  /usr/share/hal/fdi/information/10freedesktop/30-keymap-hp.fdi ?
>  >  ...
>  >
>  > >  What are the names for "Next", "Previous", "Play/pause", "Stop",
>  >  >  "Mute", "Vol Up" and "Vol Down" buttons?
>  >
>  >  Have you seen http://people.freedesktop.org/~hughsient/quirk/quirk-keymap-index.html
>  >  ?
>  >
>  >  Richard.
>  >
>
>
>  Ok let me explain what info is needed for me in order to submit my
>  keyboard keys and what is not clear to me.
>
>  On first [1] page you say "Other (or even the same!) vendors push keys
>  through the ACPI layer, which means they are not processed by X and
>  thus do nothing unless you have a daemon polling or catching the ACPI
>  events which is not setup by default. It also means having the policy
>  code in two or more places."
>
>  I don't see this explained in detail.
>  You explain in detail how to find buttons that aren't recognized by
>  linux and that when pressed print an error in dmesg.
>
>  Then on "Trying keymaps by editing FDI files" page [2] you say "This
>  will allow you to use gnome-keybindings-properties to assign an action
>  for the key. Please take the few extra steps to submit this data so
>  that keymap just works for less technical users. "
>
>  but you don't explait how to to send mapping of buttons.
>
>  I have only 2 buttons on my laptop that show up in dmesg log, others
>  are recognized but mapped incorrectly. Can you please give me
>  straightforward info how do I send mappings so that Fedora 9 users
>  with same laptop have these keys JustWork?
>
>  Thank you for your great page, I hope with this little extra effort it
>  gets usable to more people.
>
>  Cheers,
>  Valent.
>
>
>
>
>  [1] http://people.freedesktop.org/~hughsient/quirk/quirk-keymap-intro.html
>  [2] http://people.freedesktop.org/~hughsient/quirk/quirk-keymap-try.html


Can you please answer me.

Cheers,
Valent.

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