Support for Logitech Dinovo Edge special keys

Support for Logitech Dinovo Edge special keys

[Louai Al-Khanji]

Hi,

I recently bought a Logitech Dinovo Edge keyboard. However, it seems
that not all keys are supported by the current HID layer as of
2.6.28.7 - at least, in X I get no reports of keypresses, and for the
special keys that do generate key presses no keycode info is
available. I wonder if anyone can point me in the right direction on
how to fix this, and indeed confirm that this needs to be fixed in the
HID layer rather than in X somewhere.

I did look in hid-input.c, where in the hidinput_configure_usage
function there is a case HID_UP_LOGIVENDOR which is ignored. hid-lg.c
seems to contain some fixes for Logitech keyboards, but I don't quite
see how it all fits together.

I have not worked extensively in kernel space before, so please bear with me. :)

-- 
- Louai Al-Khanji

Re: Support for Logitech Dinovo Edge special keys

[Louai Al-Khanji]

On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 11:53 PM, Louai Al-Khanji
<louai.khanji@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I recently bought a Logitech Dinovo Edge keyboard. However, it seems
> that not all keys are supported by the current HID layer as of
> 2.6.28.7 - at least, in X I get no reports of keypresses, and for the
> special keys that do generate key presses no keycode info is
> available. I wonder if anyone can point me in the right direction on
> how to fix this, and indeed confirm that this needs to be fixed in the
> HID layer rather than in X somewhere.
>
> I did look in hid-input.c, where in the hidinput_configure_usage
> function there is a case HID_UP_LOGIVENDOR which is ignored. hid-lg.c
> seems to contain some fixes for Logitech keyboards, but I don't quite
> see how it all fits together.
>
> I have not worked extensively in kernel space before, so please bear with me. :)

Sorry to reply to myself, but I'm not certain my first mail went
through as I wasn't signed up on the list.

I've also gathered some information on the keyboard and the missing
keys. Attached are two files, with some dmesg info as output when the
hid driver is loaded with the option debug=2.

logitech-dinovo-edge-keys-log contains dmesg output when pressing the
keys that do not work. I've entered a key description followed by the
info from dmesg. Some keys do not generate any output, those are
followed by a blank line.

logitech-dinovo-edge-plug-log contains the dmesg output when the
keyboard's receiver is plugged in.

If anyone can give me any pointers on where and how to specify these
keys, and why some keys are completely dead, I would be very grateful.

-- 
- Louai Al-Khanji

Re: Support for Logitech Dinovo Edge special keys

[Jiri Kosina]

On Tue, 17 Mar 2009, Louai Al-Khanji wrote:

> I've also gathered some information on the keyboard and the missing 
> keys. Attached are two files, with some dmesg info as output when the 
> hid driver is loaded with the option debug=2.

I don't see any attachments to your mail.

-- 
Jiri Kosina
SUSE Labs

Re: Support for Logitech Dinovo Edge special keys

[Louai Al-Khanji]

On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 4:38 PM, Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz> wrote:
> On Tue, 17 Mar 2009, Louai Al-Khanji wrote:
>
>> I've also gathered some information on the keyboard and the missing
>> keys. Attached are two files, with some dmesg info as output when the
>> hid driver is loaded with the option debug=2.
>
> I don't see any attachments to your mail.
>
> --
> Jiri Kosina
> SUSE Labs
>
>

I sent a follow-up e-mail.

-- 
- Louai Al-Khanji

Re: Support for Logitech Dinovo Edge special keys

[Louai Al-Khanji]

On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 1:16 AM, Louai Al-Khanji <louai.khanji@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 4:38 PM, Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz> wrote:
>> On Tue, 17 Mar 2009, Louai Al-Khanji wrote:
>>
>>> I've also gathered some information on the keyboard and the missing
>>> keys. Attached are two files, with some dmesg info as output when the
>>> hid driver is loaded with the option debug=2.
>>
>> I don't see any attachments to your mail.
>>
>> --
>> Jiri Kosina
>> SUSE Labs
>>
>>
>
> I sent a follow-up e-mail.
>
> --
> - Louai Al-Khanji
>

I gathered all info and created a bug in the kernel bugzilla:
http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12890

Sorry for spam.

-- 
- Louai Al-Khanji