From: Vojtech Pavlik <vojtech@suse.cz>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: Vojtech Pavlik <vojtech@suse.cz>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Input - Only try to enable extra keys if user requested it [2/3]
Date: Wed, 9 Oct 2002 13:37:38 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20021009133738.D815@ucw.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1034163931.1323.3.camel@irongate.swansea.linux.org.uk>; from alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk on Wed, Oct 09, 2002 at 12:45:31PM +0100
On Wed, Oct 09, 2002 at 12:45:31PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
> On Wed, 2002-10-09 at 12:01, Vojtech Pavlik wrote:
> > Don't try to enable extra keys on IBM/Chicony keyboards as this upsets
> > several notebook keyboards. Until we find a better solution how to detect
> > who are we talking to, we rely on the kernel command line. Use
> > atkbd_set=4 to gain access to the extra keys.
>
> Surely this also wants a runtime option, or do you assume its fixable
> somehow ?
I hope I'll be able to find a way how to distinguish between the
notebook keyboards and the extra-key keyboards.
I'm developing a keyboard/mouse analyzer module. ;)
On the other hand, 2.4 doesn't support this feature at all.
So rebooting or reloading the atkbd module should suffice for now.
--
Vojtech Pavlik
SuSE Labs
prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-10-09 11:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-10-09 8:12 Input - Make i8042.c less picky about AUX ports [1/3] Vojtech Pavlik
2002-10-09 8:13 ` Input - Add another japanese key to default atkbd table [2/3] Vojtech Pavlik
2002-10-09 8:14 ` Input - Fix i8042.c for Sun [3/3] Vojtech Pavlik
2002-10-09 8:17 ` Input - BK Merge changesets [4/3] Vojtech Pavlik
2002-10-09 11:00 ` Input - Fix oops caused by cat /dev/uinput [1/3] Vojtech Pavlik
2002-10-09 11:01 ` Input - Only try to enable extra keys if user requested it [2/3] Vojtech Pavlik
2002-10-09 11:01 ` Input - Extra escaped semicolon [3/3] Vojtech Pavlik
2002-10-09 11:45 ` Input - Only try to enable extra keys if user requested it [2/3] Alan Cox
2002-10-09 11:37 ` Vojtech Pavlik [this message]
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