From: Andries Brouwer <aebr@win.tue.nl>
To: Neil Brown <neilb@cse.unsw.edu.au>
Cc: Vojtech Pavlik <vojtech@suse.cz>,
Andries Brouwer <aebr@win.tue.nl>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Input issues - key down with no key up
Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2003 00:36:06 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030821003606.A3165@pclin040.win.tue.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <16189.58357.516036.664166@gargle.gargle.HOWL>; from neilb@cse.unsw.edu.au on Sat, Aug 16, 2003 at 05:57:41PM +1000
On Sat, Aug 16, 2003 at 05:57:41PM +1000, Neil Brown wrote:
> There are 5 keys in question. Each one is fn + something else.
> Some of them (wireless, brighter, darker) cause the bios to do
> something, and only generate a keyboard event on a down transition.
> The others (battery, cdeject) don't appear to cause the bios to do
> anything, and generate a keyboard event on both the up and down
> transition, and it is always the same scancode.
>
> Key Meaning 2.6 scancode 2.4 (direct) scancode
> fn-F2 wireless 0x13d e0 08
> fn-F3 battery 0x136 e0 07
> fn-F10 cdeject 0x13e e0 09
> fn-down darker 0x125 e0 05
> fn-up brighter 0x12e e0 06
Thanks - added to the data base.
http://www.win.tue.nl/~aeb/linux/kbd/scancodes-1.html#ss1.12
> For my purposes, I need to use an "ioctl" to set a keycode for each
> scancode, so adding an ioctl to set the no-keyup status is no hassle
> for me. However the suggest approach of auto-detecting keys which
> have no up event would probably a good idea.
I would be unhappy.
We need a solid keyboard driver that actually works.
Not some fragile construction that has tricks built-in
so as to make things work for every kernel developer.
How many non-kernel-developers are there?
How many strange keyboards?
Andries
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-08-20 22:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 75+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-08-15 5:16 Input issues - key down with no key up Neil Brown
2003-08-15 7:46 ` Andries Brouwer
2003-08-15 10:58 ` Vojtech Pavlik
2003-08-15 12:36 ` Andries Brouwer
2003-08-15 12:43 ` Vojtech Pavlik
2003-08-15 13:27 ` Jamie Lokier
2003-08-15 13:52 ` Vojtech Pavlik
2003-08-15 14:02 ` Jamie Lokier
2003-08-15 15:05 ` Jason Lunz
2003-08-15 13:04 ` Jamie Lokier
2003-08-15 13:10 ` Vojtech Pavlik
2003-08-15 13:33 ` Jamie Lokier
2003-08-15 13:53 ` Vojtech Pavlik
2003-08-16 13:02 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2003-08-16 14:09 ` Jamie Lokier
2003-08-17 21:54 ` Vojtech Pavlik
2003-08-18 12:22 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2003-08-18 10:29 ` Andries Brouwer
2003-08-19 13:04 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2003-08-19 17:48 ` Andries Brouwer
2003-08-21 11:37 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2003-08-21 12:44 ` Andries Brouwer
2003-08-21 13:45 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2003-08-21 14:28 ` Andries Brouwer
2003-08-21 14:38 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2003-08-21 13:48 ` Jamie Lokier
2003-08-21 14:08 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2003-08-21 14:14 ` Vojtech Pavlik
2003-08-21 14:33 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2003-08-21 14:44 ` Andries Brouwer
2003-08-21 15:03 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2003-08-21 15:29 ` Vojtech Pavlik
2003-08-16 13:01 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2003-08-15 12:46 ` Neil Brown
2003-08-15 12:54 ` Vojtech Pavlik
2003-08-15 13:52 ` Andries Brouwer
2003-08-15 14:13 ` Vojtech Pavlik
2003-08-16 7:57 ` Neil Brown
2003-08-18 16:01 ` Vojtech Pavlik
2003-08-19 11:40 ` Neil Brown
2003-08-19 11:50 ` Vojtech Pavlik
2003-08-19 23:59 ` Neil Brown
2003-08-20 22:36 ` Andries Brouwer [this message]
2003-08-20 22:58 ` Jamie Lokier
2003-08-20 23:52 ` Andries Brouwer
2003-08-21 0:03 ` Jamie Lokier
2003-08-21 0:33 ` Andries Brouwer
2003-08-21 1:36 ` Jamie Lokier
2003-08-21 8:08 ` Vojtech Pavlik
2003-08-21 8:06 ` Vojtech Pavlik
2003-08-21 11:40 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2003-08-21 12:48 ` Andries Brouwer
2003-08-21 13:22 ` Jamie Lokier
2003-08-21 13:29 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2003-08-21 8:01 ` Vojtech Pavlik
2003-08-22 0:27 ` Andries Brouwer
2003-08-22 7:33 ` Vojtech Pavlik
2003-08-25 4:22 ` Jamie Lokier
2003-08-25 8:22 ` Vojtech Pavlik
2003-08-25 19:36 ` Jamie Lokier
2003-09-03 8:06 ` Pavel Machek
2003-08-22 13:35 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2003-08-16 15:15 John Bradford
2003-08-18 11:53 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2003-08-19 19:37 John Bradford
2003-08-19 23:58 ` Jamie Lokier
2003-08-20 5:59 John Bradford
2003-08-20 15:17 ` Jamie Lokier
2003-08-21 12:11 John Bradford
2003-08-21 12:26 ` Vojtech Pavlik
2003-08-23 12:30 Norman Diamond
2003-08-25 4:24 ` Jamie Lokier
2003-08-25 12:15 ` Norman Diamond
2003-08-25 8:45 John Bradford
2003-08-25 12:47 John Bradford
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