From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Mattia Dongili Subject: Re: regression since 2.6.36: backlight in sony-laptop not working Date: Fri, 12 Nov 2010 21:17:42 +0900 Message-ID: <20101112121742.GA17690@kamineko.org> References: <20101104142915.GC7650@gamma.logic.tuwien.ac.at> <20101110035833.GB3029@kamineko.org> <20101111235000.GA6651@gamma.logic.tuwien.ac.at> <20101112034423.GA7407@srcf.ucam.org> <20101112035027.GD26742@gamma.logic.tuwien.ac.at> <20101112035732.GB7574@srcf.ucam.org> <20101112042243.GE2852@kamineko.org> <20101112043922.GA19889@gamma.logic.tuwien.ac.at> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from static-220-247-10-204.b-man.svips.gol.ne.jp ([220.247.10.204]:52967 "EHLO smtp.kamineko.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753348Ab0KLMRo (ORCPT ); Fri, 12 Nov 2010 07:17:44 -0500 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20101112043922.GA19889@gamma.logic.tuwien.ac.at> Sender: linux-acpi-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org To: Norbert Preining Cc: Matthew Garrett , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, ACPI Devel Mailing List On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 01:39:22PM +0900, Norbert Preining wrote: > On Fr, 12 Nov 2010, Mattia Dongili wrote: > > backlight (actually Fn+F[56]) is one of those keys the needs remapping > > these days, i.e. if xev doesn't get any event in X then you may need > > It doesn't. You will need an updated input-kbd to set the scancode map. > > $ diff -u <(sudo input-kbd 5) vaio-kbd > > /dev/input/event5 > > bustype : BUS_ISA > > vendor : 0x104d > > product : 0x0 > > version : 0 > > name : "Sony Vaio Keys" > > bits ev : EV_SYN EV_KEY EV_MSC > > Ahhhhh > root$ input-kbd 8 > /dev/input/event8 > protocol version mismatch (expected 65536, got 65537) > and the same for all event devices?? > > I have input-kbd from xserver-xorg-input-kbd in Debian/sid, which is > at 1:1.4.0-2 version. > > Does that mean that 2.6.37rc is too new for the user space? Maybe. Anyway if evtest reacts positively to key presses then it's a userspace issue and not the driver's. -- mattia :wq!