Re: sonypi kernel driver -- volunteers needed

On 06/26/2003 08:08 PM, Ignacy Gawedzki typed onto the keyboard:
> On Thu, Jun 26, 2003 at 04:11:32PM +0000, thus spake Daniel K.:
> 
>>The patch is already aware of jogdial, back button, bluetooth an Fn-key 
>>events, unless your laptop has any special 'programmable keys', 
>>thumbphrase keys, zoom/magnify keys or similar, you will probably not 
>>see any unknown events.
> 
> 
> I have a Z1A and it doesn't know about the P1 and P2 keys.  It reports
> the same information for both of them though, and twice (once for press
> and once for release).
> 
>   sonypi: unknown event port1=0x5c,port2=0x31

Strange, indeed. Always 0x5c for port1?

> 
> Do you know if there is any other information somewhere to differentiate
> the cases?  Will my little P1 and P2 buttons be usable under linux?

I am not aware of any method to do that at this time.

> 
> Besides, at load time, the unknown events reported are a bit different
> from what has already been remarked:
> 
>   sonypi: unknown event port1=0x0e,port2=0x05

Hmmm, my SRX7S reports 0x0f for port1, maybe this is a way to 
differentiate seemingly identical devices.

>   
> I played with other things like the lid, the power button and Fn-keys.
> Lid and power button are handled by ACPI and sonypi doesn't report
> anything (even with verbose=2).  Fn-keys are properly reported.
> 

You don't have a memorystick you could try out, do you?

Daniel K.