Re: Dell Vostro V131: special hotkey not working

[Peter Meiser <meiser@gmx-topmail.de>]

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Hi again,

I found a solution for the 1st issue. It needs a udev quirk to force_release. Please find attached a patch against current udev in Ubuntu 12.04.

For the 2nd issue, I still can't find a way to generate a keycode.

Thanks for your help!
Best regards,
Peter

Am 19.01.2013 11:38, schrieb Peter Meiser:
> Hi Matthew,
> 
> this topic is still valid. Could you help me debugging the hotkeys?
> 
> There're two issues:
> 1. The "Dell support center" hotkey generates keycode 0xEE, but this is done forever. That means that I don't see a release event.
> 2. The "Dell instant launch manager" hotkey doesn't generate anything.
> 
> Thanks a lot in advance,
> Peter
> 
> Am 25.04.2012 16:22, schrieb Matthew Garrett:
>> On Wed, Apr 25, 2012 at 04:19:51PM +0200, Peter Meiser wrote:
>>> Hello Matthew,
>>>
>>> Am 25.04.2012 15:53, schrieb Matthew Garrett:
>>>> watch -n 0.1 cat /proc/interrupts
>>>
>>> When running "watch -n 0,1 cat /proc/interrupts" (watch -n 0.1 errors out, maybe because of German environment???), the following row increases after each press:
>>>
>>>   9:          5          0          0          0   IO-APIC-fasteoi   acpi
>>
>> Ok, so it's definitely being handled by ACPI somehow - probably via WMI, 
>> but unsure. Rez, any chance you can look at the original message and let 
>> us know if this is expected to work with the current driver?
>>

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--- a/extras/keymap/keymaps/dell
+++ b/extras/keymap/keymaps/dell
@@ -25,5 +25,6 @@
 0xA2 playpause # Front panel play/pause
 0xA4 stopcd # Front panel stop
 0xED media # MediaDirect button
+0xEE screenlock # FIXME: Dell Support Center button
 0xD8 screenlock # FIXME: Tablet lock button
 0xD9 f21 # touchpad toggle
diff -Naur a/extras/keymap/95-keyboard-force-release.rules b/extras/keymap/95-keyboard-force-release.rules
--- a/extras/keymap/95-keyboard-force-release.rules	2013-07-20 06:59:13.626208521 +0200
+++ b/extras/keymap/95-keyboard-force-release.rules	2013-07-20 07:00:30.166211692 +0200
@@ -24,6 +24,7 @@
 ENV{DMI_VENDOR}=="Dell Inc.", ATTR{[dmi/id]product_name}=="Studio 1557|Studio 1558", RUN+="keyboard-force-release.sh $devpath common-volume-keys"
 ENV{DMI_VENDOR}=="Dell Inc.", ATTR{[dmi/id]product_name}=="*Latitude*|*Precision*", RUN+="keyboard-force-release.sh $devpath dell-touchpad"
 ENV{DMI_VENDOR}=="Dell Inc.", ATTR{[dmi/id]product_name}=="XPS*", RUN+="keyboard-force-release.sh $devpath dell-xps"
+ENV{DMI_VENDOR}=="Dell Inc.", ATTR{[dmi/id]product_name}=="*Vostro*", RUN+="keyboard-force-release.sh $devpath dell-vostro"
 
 ENV{DMI_VENDOR}=="FUJITSU SIEMENS", ATTR{[dmi/id]product_name}=="AMILO*", RUN+="keyboard-force-release.sh $devpath common-volume-keys"
 
diff -Naur a/extras/keymap/force-release-maps/dell-vostro b/extras/keymap/force-release-maps/dell-vostro
--- a/extras/keymap/force-release-maps/dell-vostro	1970-01-01 01:00:00.000000000 +0100
+++ b/extras/keymap/force-release-maps/dell-vostro	2013-07-20 06:59:45.086209823 +0200
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+0xEE # Dell Support Center button