Re: PATCH: Four function buttons on DELL Latitude X200

[Vojtech Pavlik <vojtech@suse.cz>]

On Thu, Dec 12, 2002 at 07:17:22AM -0500, James H. Cloos Jr. wrote:
> >>>>> "Vojtech" == Vojtech Pavlik <vojtech@suse.cz> writes:
> 
> Vojtech> Do they by any chance produce a kernel warning when pressed?
> 
> Yes, the two keys that do not generate an event in X syslog these errors:
> 
> atkbd.c: Unknown key (set 2, scancode 0x176, on isa0060/serio0) pressed.
> atkbd.c: Unknown key (set 2, scancode 0x176, on isa0060/serio0) released.
> atkbd.c: Unknown key (set 2, scancode 0x11e, on isa0060/serio0) pressed.
> atkbd.c: Unknown key (set 2, scancode 0x11e, on isa0060/serio0) released.
> 
> where 0x176 is the PLAY key and 0x11e is the PREV key.

You can edit atkbd.c, and at the beginning there is a big table, add
some reasonable keycodes (KEY_PLAY, KEY_PREV), to entries 0x11e and
0x176 in the table.

> Incidently, the FORWARD key is giving the same keycode as the main
> kb's Pause key.

Should be possible to fix at the same place.

(You can try to use 'setkeycode' for the same purpose in 2.5, but it
might and might not work.)

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Vojtech Pavlik
SuSE Labs