multimedia keys on dell inspiron 8200s.

multimedia keys on dell inspiron 8200s.

[Dave Jones]

We've been carrying this patch in Fedora for way too long.
So long, I've forgotten a lot of the history.

Aparently, it makes multimedia buttons on Dell Inspiron 8200's
produce keycodes.  The only reference to this I found was
at http://linux.siprell.com/, but I don't know if that's its origin.

Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>

--- linux-2.6/drivers/input/keyboard/atkbd.c~	2005-04-16 12:45:00.000000000 -0400
+++ linux-2.6/drivers/input/keyboard/atkbd.c	2005-04-16 12:46:28.000000000 -0400
@@ -90,13 +90,13 @@ static unsigned char atkbd_set2_keycode[
 	 82, 83, 80, 76, 77, 72,  1, 69, 87, 78, 81, 74, 55, 73, 70, 99,
 
 	  0,  0,  0,  0,  0,  0,  0,  0,  0,  0,  0,  0,  0,  0,  0,  0,
-	217,100,255,  0, 97,165,  0,  0,156,  0,  0,  0,  0,  0,  0,125,
-	173,114,  0,113,  0,  0,  0,126,128,  0,  0,140,  0,  0,  0,127,
+	217,100,255,  0, 97,165,196,  0,156,  0,  0,  0,  0,  0,197,125,
+	173,114,  0,113,  0,  0,198,126,128,  0,  0,140,  0,  0,  0,127,
 	159,  0,115,  0,164,  0,  0,116,158,  0,150,166,  0,  0,  0,142,
 	157,  0,  0,  0,  0,  0,  0,  0,155,  0, 98,  0,  0,163,  0,  0,
 	226,  0,  0,  0,  0,  0,  0,  0,  0,255, 96,  0,  0,  0,143,  0,
 	  0,  0,  0,  0,  0,  0,  0,  0,  0,107,  0,105,102,  0,  0,112,
-	110,111,108,112,106,103,  0,119,  0,118,109,  0, 99,104,119,  0,
+	110,111,108,112,106,103,195,119,  0,118,109,  0, 99,104,119,  0,
 
 	  0,  0,  0, 65, 99,
 #endif

Re: multimedia keys on dell inspiron 8200s.

[Dmitry Torokhov]

On Thursday 23 February 2006 20:49, Dave Jones wrote:
> We've been carrying this patch in Fedora for way too long.
> So long, I've forgotten a lot of the history.
> 
> Aparently, it makes multimedia buttons on Dell Inspiron 8200's
> produce keycodes.  The only reference to this I found was
> at http://linux.siprell.com/, but I don't know if that's its origin.
> 

Dave,

This patch was refused before. Any additional/non-standard mapping is
to be done in userspace (you need to properly adjust xorg.conf anyway):

http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2817#c4

> ------- Additional Comment #4 From Vojtech Pavlik 2005-07-03 00:19 -------
> I will not accept this patch (or any similar patch) to extend the
> atkbd.c mapping table - only standard scancodes are allowed there. The
> table is easily modified from userspace, and that is the way to go.
>
> In the past I tried to fill the table with all the entries, but found
> out that there are two or three keyboards competing for every position
> in the scancode table, with a different keycode.

-- 
Dmitry

Re: multimedia keys on dell inspiron 8200s.

[Dave Jones]

On Fri, Feb 24, 2006 at 10:57:53PM -0500, Dmitry Torokhov wrote:
 > On Thursday 23 February 2006 20:49, Dave Jones wrote:
 > > We've been carrying this patch in Fedora for way too long.
 > > So long, I've forgotten a lot of the history.
 > > 
 > > Aparently, it makes multimedia buttons on Dell Inspiron 8200's
 > > produce keycodes.  The only reference to this I found was
 > > at http://linux.siprell.com/, but I don't know if that's its origin.
 > > 
 > 
 > Dave,
 > 
 > This patch was refused before. Any additional/non-standard mapping is
 > to be done in userspace (you need to properly adjust xorg.conf anyway):
 > 
 > http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2817#c4

Ok, thanks, I'll make sure it gets dropped from the Fedora tree.

		Dave

Re: multimedia keys on dell inspiron 8200s.

[Giuseppe Bilotta]

On Fri, 24 Feb 2006 23:27:29 -0500, Dave Jones wrote:

> On Fri, Feb 24, 2006 at 10:57:53PM -0500, Dmitry Torokhov wrote:
>  > On Thursday 23 February 2006 20:49, Dave Jones wrote:
>  > > We've been carrying this patch in Fedora for way too long.
>  > > So long, I've forgotten a lot of the history.
>  > > 
>  > > Aparently, it makes multimedia buttons on Dell Inspiron 8200's
>  > > produce keycodes.  The only reference to this I found was
>  > > at http://linux.siprell.com/, but I don't know if that's its origin.
>  > > 
>  > 
>  > Dave,
>  > 
>  > This patch was refused before. Any additional/non-standard mapping is
>  > to be done in userspace (you need to properly adjust xorg.conf anyway):
>  > 
>  > http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2817#c4
> 
> Ok, thanks, I'll make sure it gets dropped from the Fedora tree.

The patch looks remarkably like the one I originally submitted for
comments.

I'm still running Linux on my Dell Inspiron 8200 and I'm not using
that patch anymore. Rather, I found a package that recently made it to
the Debian unstable repository, hotkey-setup

http://packages.debian.org/unstable/misc/hotkey-setup

which you may want to consider for inclusion on Fedora too. On the
Debian BTS you will also see a Bug/Wish from me

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=355223

with additional definitions for the multimedia keys on my Dell and
some comments.

(Sorry for the delay in my reply)


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