Re: regression since 2.6.36: backlight in sony-laptop not working

Mattia Dongili
2010-11-12T12:17:44Z

On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 01:39:22PM +0900, Norbert Preining wrote:
> On Fr, 12 Nov 2010, Mattia Dongili wrote:
> > backlight (actually Fn+F[56]) is one of those keys the needs remapping
> > these days, i.e. if xev doesn't get any event in X then you may need
>
> It doesn't.

You will need an updated input-kbd to set the scancode map.

> > $ diff -u <(sudo input-kbd 5) vaio-kbd
> > /dev/input/event5
> > bustype : BUS_ISA
> > vendor : 0x104d
> > product : 0x0
> > version : 0
> > name : "Sony Vaio Keys"
> > bits ev : EV_SYN EV_KEY EV_MSC
>
> Ahhhhh
> root$ input-kbd 8
> /dev/input/event8
> protocol version mismatch (expected 65536, got 65537)
> and the same for all event devices??
>
> I have input-kbd from xserver-xorg-input-kbd in Debian/sid, which is
> at 1:1.4.0-2 version.
>
> Does that mean that 2.6.37rc is too new for the user space?

Maybe. Anyway if evtest reacts positively to key presses then it's a
userspace issue and not the driver's.

--
mattia
:wq!