Keyboard mapping for Dell Mobile Precision platforms

[Alex Deucher]

On 11/2/06, Rezwanul_Kabir at dell.com <Rezwanul_Kabir at dell.com> wrote:
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> Haven't seen any response yet… Anybody willing to provide some hints to get
> me going . If it's not the right list to ask the question, can anyone point
> me to the right one..

I suspect the fn-key codes are coming from acpi input events and hence
are not coming from the keyboard.  I don't know what you need to do to
make it all work though.

Alex

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> Thanks..
>     --rez
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> From:   Kabir, Rezwanul
> Sent:   Wednesday, November 01, 2006 12:34 PM
> To:     'xorg at lists.freedesktop.org'
> Subject:        Keyboard mapping for Dell Mobile Precision platforms
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> Hi
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>   I am trying to map some HotKeys into specific actions for Dell Mobile
> Precision systems. I have been able to do so quite easily for the text
> console but  having problem with key mapping in Xwindows.
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>  I am not very familiar with Xwindows code so pls help me out…
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> Here's what I got:
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>   kernel 2.6.18
>   Fedora Core 5
>   xorg-x11-server-Xorg-1.0.1-8
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> For example:
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>  I would like to map Fn+F1 to "hibernate"
>  From text console with 'showkey -s' , I find pressing Fn+F1 generates e00a.
> So it's quite from there to map it to any action.
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>  But the problem is, when I fire up xserver and run 'xev'. If I press Fn+F1,
> nothing shows up in the screen to tell me about any Xkeycode/keysym that is
> generated.
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>   This tells me that the problem might be in mapping scancode --> Xkeycode
> in  the xf86PostKbdEvent() function in hw/xfree86/common/xf86Events.c
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>    Is this the right way to fix it? If not what path should I take?
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>    Any pointers/suggestions are welcome. I am willing to do any coding to
> get it fixed.
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>    Thanks..
>       --rez
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