[tlinux-users:07622] Re: M40X laptop hotkeys (Phoenix bios)

Le vendredi 27 janvier 2006 à 14:17 -0500, Grant McDorman a écrit :
> On 27/01/06, Julien Valroff <[email protected]> wrote:
>         Le jeudi 26 janvier 2006 à 19:13 -0500, Grant McDorman a
>         écrit :
>         > On 26/01/06, Alex Nikitin <[email protected]> wrote:
>         I explained in my original message that the non-working keys
>         do *not* 
>         generate any scancode, and this is my problem! Sorry for not
>         having been
>         clear.
> 
> Oops - missed that, sorry.
No problem, thanks for answering!

> Perhaps you can try different machine codes for omnibook? (forget the
> parameter name, and I'm at work so I can't check it right now). Also
> make sure you have the latest version of omnibook (20060126, i.e. from
> *yesterday*)

The parameter is certainly ectype, isn't it? It is the only way to make
the module work on my laptop as M40X is not (yet) implemented. It works
with ectype=12 (as for M35X and M70). I had written a patch for previous
version to avoid this argument, now I guess I have to work on it again!

I found something very interesting in the source code: polling.c:
"scancode emulation for volume buttons on certain models"

This means that I have to understand how to adapt to my model for the
non-working keys. But my development knowledge is really poor.

However, I can understand that key polling only works with a 2.4 kernel,
and, of course, I use a 2.6 kernel on my laptop!

Does anyone have the required knowledge in C to help me in this task?

Cheers,
Julien