Keymap overrides for media keys

Bastien Nocera hadess at hadess.net
Tue May 6 03:11:58 PDT 2008


On Mon, 2008-05-05 at 22:28 +1000, Bradley Baetz wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I have an HP dv6519 laptop. It has some touch sensitive media keys at
> the top of the keyboard, as well as fn-<number> combinations. These
> mostly work, but the one exception is the stop key. The keydown event
> (e024) works, but the keyup event (e0a4) is mapped to the eject key,
> and ejects the DVD drive.
> 
> Its matched by the dv6500 clause in 30-keymap-hp.fdi, so I tried adding:
> 
>           <append key="input.keymap.data"
> type="strlist">e0a4:stopcd</append>   <!-- FnF10 (stop) - keyup -->
> 
> to the file, and restarting hal. lshal shows input.keymap.data as
> including 'e0a4:stopcd', but it still ejects the dvd drive which is
> mapped to XF86Eject.

Known bug in gnome-settings-daemon. See:
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=530356

Fixed in the Fedora 9 packages if you use that:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=346201

Cheers



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