[tlinux-users:07624] Re: M40X laptop hotkeys (Phoenix bios)

Hi there julien =)

Julien Valroff wrote:
> 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!

That's kinda weird .. omnibook module loads ok in here (P15-S479) 
without any extra parameters ( except for user=1 which I voluntarily use 
.. )

> 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.

I have the same problem in here .. there are quite a few keys that won't 
  produce keycodes or anything else .. I don't know to what extent that 
is omnibook module related ...

> 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?

As of today, I thought that omnibook kernel module was a dead project ( 
I've been using it for a little more than a year, and this is the first 
time that I see an update .. and by looking at the changelogs, the 
update on the code wasn't worth the wait .. ).

I really think the best way to go would be: get ourselves toghether and 
start posting in some bugzilla list (or something like that), letting ( 
manufacturers like hp or toshiba? kernel development team? distro devel 
teams? sombody else? ) know that there's a lot of people out there that 
*highly* requires futher development of the omnibook kernel module to 
have their systems ( notebooks in this case ) to be fully linux friendly.

We have to keep in mind that is not about only us ( Tosh Satellite users 
) who really need further development on this module ( Hp, Acer, etc, 
user's are also affected ... ) to have proper hardware support for our 
notebooks on linux.

what do you guys think??

see ya !