From: Mattia Dongili <malattia@linux.it>
To: Norbert Preining <preining@logic.at>
Cc: Matthew Garrett <mjg@redhat.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
ACPI Devel Mailing List <linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: regression since 2.6.36: backlight in sony-laptop not working
Date: Fri, 12 Nov 2010 21:17:42 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20101112121742.GA17690@kamineko.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20101112043922.GA19889@gamma.logic.tuwien.ac.at>
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!
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-11-12 12:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-11-04 14:29 regression since 2.6.36: backlight in sony-laptop not working Norbert Preining
2010-11-10 3:58 ` Mattia Dongili
2010-11-11 23:50 ` Norbert Preining
2010-11-12 3:44 ` Matthew Garrett
2010-11-12 3:50 ` Norbert Preining
2010-11-12 3:57 ` Matthew Garrett
2010-11-12 4:14 ` Norbert Preining
2010-11-12 4:22 ` Mattia Dongili
2010-11-12 4:39 ` Norbert Preining
2010-11-12 12:17 ` Mattia Dongili [this message]
2010-11-16 5:16 ` Norbert Preining
2010-11-16 14:18 ` Mattia Dongili
2010-11-16 17:41 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2010-11-17 6:30 ` Norbert Preining
2010-11-17 6:33 ` Norbert Preining
2010-11-17 6:52 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2010-11-18 11:04 ` Mattia Dongili
2010-11-18 13:34 ` Mattia Dongili
2010-11-18 18:06 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2010-11-17 7:12 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2010-11-12 7:38 ` Zhang Rui
2010-11-12 10:10 ` Norbert Preining
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