From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932601AbWBYD54 (ORCPT ); Fri, 24 Feb 2006 22:57:56 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932620AbWBYD54 (ORCPT ); Fri, 24 Feb 2006 22:57:56 -0500 Received: from smtp108.sbc.mail.re2.yahoo.com ([68.142.229.97]:1440 "HELO smtp108.sbc.mail.re2.yahoo.com") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S932601AbWBYD54 (ORCPT ); Fri, 24 Feb 2006 22:57:56 -0500 From: Dmitry Torokhov To: Dave Jones Subject: Re: multimedia keys on dell inspiron 8200s. Date: Fri, 24 Feb 2006 22:57:53 -0500 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.1 Cc: Linux Kernel , Andrew Morton References: <20060224014947.GA17397@redhat.com> In-Reply-To: <20060224014947.GA17397@redhat.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200602242257.54062.dtor_core@ameritech.net> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thursday 23 February 2006 20:49, Dave Jones wrote: > We've been carrying this patch in Fedora for way too long. > So long, I've forgotten a lot of the history. > > Aparently, it makes multimedia buttons on Dell Inspiron 8200's > produce keycodes. The only reference to this I found was > at http://linux.siprell.com/, but I don't know if that's its origin. > Dave, This patch was refused before. Any additional/non-standard mapping is to be done in userspace (you need to properly adjust xorg.conf anyway): http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2817#c4 > ------- Additional Comment #4 From Vojtech Pavlik 2005-07-03 00:19 ------- > I will not accept this patch (or any similar patch) to extend the > atkbd.c mapping table - only standard scancodes are allowed there. The > table is easily modified from userspace, and that is the way to go. > > In the past I tried to fill the table with all the entries, but found > out that there are two or three keyboards competing for every position > in the scancode table, with a different keycode. -- Dmitry