Re: Re: [patch 1/1] thinkpad fn+fx key driver

[Vojtech Pavlik <vojtech-AlSwsSmVLrQ@public.gmane.org>]

On Sat, Sep 25, 2004 at 01:22:20PM +0200, Pavel Machek wrote:

> > > Having vol+/vol- keys would be  very welcome. This daemon would
> > > have to understand scancodes for a lot of
> > > different keyboards, but perhaps
> > > that is easy enough to create incrementally.
> > 
> > The Volume+ and Volume- keys are actually pretty standardized and the
> > kernel recognizes them out of the box on 95% of machines.
> 
> Hmm, yes, on my machines vol- generates ^[[26~, mute ^[[25~ and vol+ nothing.

Have you tried evtest? It might be just a keymap issue.

> > The daemon could but wouldn't have to take care of uploading the correct
> > scancode->keycode tables to the kernel.
> 
> Hmm, okay. 
> 
> Is it possible to have somehow get both keycodes and translated keys?
> I guess I might want to define ctrl-alt-= as vol+ and ctrl-alt-- as
> vol- for machines that do not have hardware keys.

That's something to be handled in userspace.

> Do you have example code using event interface, somewhere?
 
Yes, the evtest source is a good example. It's in the inpututils RPM or
in the linuxconsole.sf.net CVS.

-- 
Vojtech Pavlik
SuSE Labs, SuSE CR


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