HP Compaq 6730s keymap patch

[Matthew Garrett]

On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 08:44:01PM +0800, Ben Caldwell wrote:

> Looks like it will not be so easy, HP laptops do not seem to have standard fn
> key assignment e.g. for brightness control Compaq 6710b uses fnF9/fnF10 while
> Compaq 6730s uses fnF7/fnF8.

In general, the BIOSes used will generate the same scancode for 
identical key function, even if the physical key has changed. Having 
said that, the 2510 doesn't send scancodes at all for brightness keys, 
so I'd be surprised if the 6710 does (the events come through ACPI 
instead).

-- 
Matthew Garrett | mjg59 at srcf.ucam.org