Re: Support special keys on laptop by default?

Jiri Kosina <[email protected]> Tue, 6 Jan 2009 15:26:52 +0100 (CET)
Newsgroups org.kernel.vger.linux-laptop,org.kernel.vger.linux-input
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Tue, 6 Jan 2009, Niels de Vos wrote:

> on my HP/Compaq nc6400 there are three keys (info, presentation and
> battery) not directly recognized. If I press any of the keys, I get:
> 
> atkbd.c: Unknown key released (translated set 2, code 0xd9 on isa0060/serio0).
> atkbd.c: Use 'setkeycodes e059 <keycode>' to make it known.
[ ... ]
> Where should I start looking for creating a patch for solving problems 
> of this kind? There seem to be quirks in atkbd.c, but I think they are 
> used for some other workarounds.

Please see 
http://people.freedesktop.org/~hughsient/quirk/quirk-keymap-index.html

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Jiri Kosina
SUSE Labs