Re: sonypi kernel driver -- volunteers needed

On 06/25/2003 11:11 PM, Christian T. Steigies typed onto the keyboard:
> On Wed, Jun 25, 2003 at 10:50:09PM +0000, Daniel K. wrote:
> 
>>The genreal idea is that the events will be generated when you do 
>>'something' with your laptop. e.g. inserting or removing a memorystick 
>>will generate an event.
> 
> 
> Thats what I thought. I don't have a memory stick handy (I think I could
> borrow one if thats important).
>  

I have a memorystick reader in my VAIO as well, so I could test it out 
when I get my hands on a memorystick.

> 
>>If you have a Picturebook, you may generate a 'capture' event by 
>>pressing any of the camera keys. Different laptops heve different keys, 
>>some have 'thumbphrase' keys, 'zoom' keys, 'help' keys or special 
>>'programmable keys'.
>>These are the ones that will induce the events I am interested in.
>>Maybe *your* laptop even have other special keys that will generate a 
>>different set of events, this is what I am after.
> 
> 
> I pressed all the buttons I found, the GR100K only has a Jogdial plus an
> extra back button (the jogdial works great, the button doesn't do anything
> in Linux yet). Nothing in the syslog, even when I used the Fn+functions keys
> (volume, brightness, LCD, TV). Closing the lid didn't generate an event
> either. I got this laptop used, so I don't know if there are any other
> special keys, but I don't think so.
> 

You seem to have to have the same keys as I have on my laptop Fn-key, 
jog-dial + back button, these eventtypes is already taken care of in the 
patch and are thus not unknown to the driver, you should be able to get 
a few unknown events though, if you turn the jog-wheel 'really' fast.

Daniel K.