* atkbd w 2.6.2rc1 : HowTo for extra (inet) keys ? @ 2004-01-23 20:04 P. Christeas 2004-01-23 21:09 ` Vojtech Pavlik 0 siblings, 1 reply; 6+ messages in thread From: P. Christeas @ 2004-01-23 20:04 UTC (permalink / raw) To: Vojtech Pavlik; +Cc: lkml Hello again. I just reverted my atkbd.c code to your version (Linus's tree) and unfortunately have 4 keys 'missing' from my HP Omnibook XE3GC extra "internet keys". Question 1: Can I fix the table from userland, using some utility? That is, can I upload an updated table into the kernel, so that I don't have to reboot? Q 2: Do you have any HowTo/QA for that? Q 3: Will that work under X? (which AFAIK reads the 'raw' codes) Q 4: It has been rather difficult for me to compute the scancodes needed for the table. Could you put the "formula" onto the HowTo? Thanks. FYI, the codes are: "www": Unknown key pressed (translated set 2, code 0xf3 on isa0060/serio0). "Mail": Unknown key pressed (translated set 2, code 0xf4 on isa0060/serio0). "Launch": Unknown key pressed (translated set 2, code 0xf2 on isa0060/serio0). "Help": Unknown key pressed (translated set 2, code 0xf1 on isa0060/serio0). ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 6+ messages in thread
* Re: atkbd w 2.6.2rc1 : HowTo for extra (inet) keys ? 2004-01-23 20:04 atkbd w 2.6.2rc1 : HowTo for extra (inet) keys ? P. Christeas @ 2004-01-23 21:09 ` Vojtech Pavlik 2004-01-24 2:28 ` Solved: " P. Christeas 0 siblings, 1 reply; 6+ messages in thread From: Vojtech Pavlik @ 2004-01-23 21:09 UTC (permalink / raw) To: P. Christeas; +Cc: lkml On Fri, Jan 23, 2004 at 10:04:27PM +0200, P. Christeas wrote: > Hello again. > I just reverted my atkbd.c code to your version (Linus's tree) and > unfortunately have 4 keys 'missing' from my HP Omnibook XE3GC extra "internet > keys". > Question 1: Can I fix the table from userland, using some utility? That is, > can I upload an updated table into the kernel, so that I don't have to > reboot? 'setkeycodes' can do that. > Q 2: Do you have any HowTo/QA for that? Not yet, but I'll have to write one. > Q 3: Will that work under X? (which AFAIK reads the 'raw' codes) X needs to be set up as well. In 2.6, X doesn't get real raw codes but instead simulated raw codes generated by the kernel. > Q 4: It has been rather difficult for me to compute the scancodes needed for > the table. Could you put the "formula" onto the HowTo? > FYI, the codes are: > "www": Unknown key pressed (translated set 2, code 0xf3 on isa0060/serio0). > "Mail": Unknown key pressed (translated set 2, code 0xf4 on isa0060/serio0). > "Launch": Unknown key pressed (translated set 2, code 0xf2 on isa0060/serio0). > "Help": Unknown key pressed (translated set 2, code 0xf1 on isa0060/serio0). The formula for setkeycodes is: if (code > 0x100) you're out of luck, setkeycodes doesn't handle this yet; else if (code > 0x80) result = code - 0x80 + 0xe000; else result = code; And then you use 'setkeycodes result keycode', where keycode you find in include/linux/input.h. -- Vojtech Pavlik SuSE Labs, SuSE CR ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 6+ messages in thread
* Solved: atkbd w 2.6.2rc1 : HowTo for extra (inet) keys ? 2004-01-23 21:09 ` Vojtech Pavlik @ 2004-01-24 2:28 ` P. Christeas 2004-01-24 8:39 ` Vojtech Pavlik 2004-01-24 18:37 ` Andries Brouwer 0 siblings, 2 replies; 6+ messages in thread From: P. Christeas @ 2004-01-24 2:28 UTC (permalink / raw) To: Vojtech Pavlik; +Cc: lkml, omnibook After spending my evening on it :-( I managed to find the correct keys for the Omnibook XE3: (I could only reverse-engineer the previous hack I 've had for it) Download and hack the 'console-tools' package (from sourceforge, project "lct") so that 'setkeycodes' does accept keycodes >127. Vojtech, is 512 the upper bound for <keycode> at setkeycodes? Using 2.6.2-rc1, issue: setkeycodes e071 236 setkeycodes e072 237 setkeycodes e073 238 setkeycodes e074 239 so that the upper (near the screen) row of "internet" buttons is assigned to the keys X expect to receive. e071 etc. can be found using 'showkey -s' I still don't get where 236 came from (so that I could help other kbds, as well). > On Fri, Jan 23, 2004 at 10:04:27PM +0200, P. Christeas wrote: > > Hello again. > > I just reverted my atkbd.c code to your version (Linus's tree) and > > unfortunately have 4 keys 'missing' from my HP Omnibook XE3GC extra > > "internet keys". > > Question 1: Can I fix the table from userland, using some utility? That > > is, can I upload an updated table into the kernel, so that I don't have > > to reboot? > > 'setkeycodes' can do that. > > > Q 2: Do you have any HowTo/QA for that? > > Not yet, but I'll have to write one. > > > Q 3: Will that work under X? (which AFAIK reads the 'raw' codes) > > X needs to be set up as well. In 2.6, X doesn't get real raw codes but > instead simulated raw codes generated by the kernel. > > > Q 4: It has been rather difficult for me to compute the scancodes needed > > for the table. Could you put the "formula" onto the HowTo? > > > > FYI, the codes are: > > "www": Unknown key pressed (translated set 2, code 0xf3 on > > isa0060/serio0). "Mail": Unknown key pressed (translated set 2, code > > 0xf4 on isa0060/serio0). "Launch": Unknown key pressed (translated set 2, > > code 0xf2 on isa0060/serio0). "Help": Unknown key pressed (translated > > set 2, code 0xf1 on isa0060/serio0). > > The formula for setkeycodes is: > > if (code > 0x100) > you're out of luck, setkeycodes doesn't handle this yet; > else if (code > 0x80) > result = code - 0x80 + 0xe000; > else > result = code; > > And then you use 'setkeycodes result keycode', > > where keycode you find in include/linux/input.h. ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 6+ messages in thread
* Re: Solved: atkbd w 2.6.2rc1 : HowTo for extra (inet) keys ? 2004-01-24 2:28 ` Solved: " P. Christeas @ 2004-01-24 8:39 ` Vojtech Pavlik 2004-01-24 18:37 ` Andries Brouwer 1 sibling, 0 replies; 6+ messages in thread From: Vojtech Pavlik @ 2004-01-24 8:39 UTC (permalink / raw) To: P. Christeas; +Cc: lkml, omnibook On Sat, Jan 24, 2004 at 04:28:30AM +0200, P. Christeas wrote: > After spending my evening on it :-( I managed to find the correct keys for > the Omnibook XE3: > (I could only reverse-engineer the previous hack I 've had for it) > Download and hack the 'console-tools' package (from sourceforge, project > "lct") so that 'setkeycodes' does accept keycodes >127. > > Vojtech, is 512 the upper bound for <keycode> at setkeycodes? > > Using 2.6.2-rc1, issue: > setkeycodes e071 236 > setkeycodes e072 237 > setkeycodes e073 238 > setkeycodes e074 239 > > so that the upper (near the screen) row of "internet" buttons is assigned to > the keys X expect to receive. > e071 etc. can be found using 'showkey -s' > I still don't get where 236 came from (so that I could help other kbds, as > well). The almost right solution here would be to write an xkb keyboard description that matches the 2.6 keycode->scancode mappings, so that once you get the 'setkeycodes' command right, both the kernel and X will understand the keys correctly. With your approach you got the keys correct solely in X, not the kernel. I'll take a look at this. The completely right approach would be to teach X to either use the event interface or at least the medium raw mode. > > On Fri, Jan 23, 2004 at 10:04:27PM +0200, P. Christeas wrote: > > > Hello again. > > > I just reverted my atkbd.c code to your version (Linus's tree) and > > > unfortunately have 4 keys 'missing' from my HP Omnibook XE3GC extra > > > "internet keys". > > > Question 1: Can I fix the table from userland, using some utility? That > > > is, can I upload an updated table into the kernel, so that I don't have > > > to reboot? > > > > 'setkeycodes' can do that. > > > > > Q 2: Do you have any HowTo/QA for that? > > > > Not yet, but I'll have to write one. > > > > > Q 3: Will that work under X? (which AFAIK reads the 'raw' codes) > > > > X needs to be set up as well. In 2.6, X doesn't get real raw codes but > > instead simulated raw codes generated by the kernel. > > > > > Q 4: It has been rather difficult for me to compute the scancodes needed > > > for the table. Could you put the "formula" onto the HowTo? > > > > > > FYI, the codes are: > > > "www": Unknown key pressed (translated set 2, code 0xf3 on > > > isa0060/serio0). "Mail": Unknown key pressed (translated set 2, code > > > 0xf4 on isa0060/serio0). "Launch": Unknown key pressed (translated set 2, > > > code 0xf2 on isa0060/serio0). "Help": Unknown key pressed (translated > > > set 2, code 0xf1 on isa0060/serio0). > > > > The formula for setkeycodes is: > > > > if (code > 0x100) > > you're out of luck, setkeycodes doesn't handle this yet; > > else if (code > 0x80) > > result = code - 0x80 + 0xe000; > > else > > result = code; > > > > And then you use 'setkeycodes result keycode', > > > > where keycode you find in include/linux/input.h. -- Vojtech Pavlik SuSE Labs, SuSE CR ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 6+ messages in thread
* Re: Solved: atkbd w 2.6.2rc1 : HowTo for extra (inet) keys ? 2004-01-24 2:28 ` Solved: " P. Christeas 2004-01-24 8:39 ` Vojtech Pavlik @ 2004-01-24 18:37 ` Andries Brouwer 2004-01-26 19:29 ` [OmniBook] " Nigel Cunningham 1 sibling, 1 reply; 6+ messages in thread From: Andries Brouwer @ 2004-01-24 18:37 UTC (permalink / raw) To: P. Christeas; +Cc: Vojtech Pavlik, lkml, omnibook On Sat, Jan 24, 2004 at 04:28:30AM +0200, P. Christeas wrote: > Download and hack the 'console-tools' package (from sourceforge, project > "lct") so that 'setkeycodes' does accept keycodes >127. It sounds as if you think that the kbd setkeycodes does not handle keycodes above 127, but it does. No hacking required. ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 6+ messages in thread
* Re: [OmniBook] Re: Solved: atkbd w 2.6.2rc1 : HowTo for extra (inet) keys ? 2004-01-24 18:37 ` Andries Brouwer @ 2004-01-26 19:29 ` Nigel Cunningham 0 siblings, 0 replies; 6+ messages in thread From: Nigel Cunningham @ 2004-01-26 19:29 UTC (permalink / raw) To: Andries Brouwer; +Cc: P. Christeas, Vojtech Pavlik, lkml, omnibook [-- Attachment #1: Type: text/plain, Size: 923 bytes --] There is an Omnibook module on Sourceforge that contains all the key information for a variety of models. Furthermore, utilities such as hotkeys will let you use the keys from within X with very little configuration. No hacking required there either. Regards, Nigel On Sun, 2004-01-25 at 07:37, Andries Brouwer wrote: > On Sat, Jan 24, 2004 at 04:28:30AM +0200, P. Christeas wrote: > > > Download and hack the 'console-tools' package (from sourceforge, project > > "lct") so that 'setkeycodes' does accept keycodes >127. > > It sounds as if you think that the kbd setkeycodes does not handle keycodes > above 127, but it does. No hacking required. > > _______________________________________________ > OmniBook mailing list > OmniBook@zurich.csail.mit.edu > http://zurich.csail.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/omnibook -- My work on Software Suspend is graciously brought to you by LinuxFund.org. [-- Attachment #2: This is a digitally signed message part --] [-- Type: application/pgp-signature, Size: 189 bytes --] ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 6+ messages in thread
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