Re: keyboard scancodes
What notebook do you have? I have a Toshiba Satelitte (5205 series),
and all the extra keys on my keyboard are "hotkeys" which are supported
by enabling "Toshiba Laptop Extras" under ACPI support in the kernel
(after applying the ACPI patch).
Socheat
On Tue, 2003-02-04 at 06:14, Sebastian Henschel wrote:
> hi folks...
>
> i assume, some of you have already encountered the problem with
> not-working extra-keys on your laptop.
> the numerous tools available work by assigning unassigned
> scancodes to keycodes (to characters/starting programs), as it seems to
> me. this may be different for tools for specific laptops (like tpctl,
> i8kutils), which i do not have access to.
>
> the problem arises, when there is no scancode at all for a specific key,
> when the keyboard controller does not send any code to the driver.
> you can test this with "showkey -s". and i have seen a couple of laptops
> which do not generate a scancode when hitting an extra key.
>
> it seems that the keyboard driver has to send a magic byte string to the
> controller for that to work.
> so does anyone of you have any experience in this regard? anyone who
> actually did or tried this?
>
> tia,
> sebastian
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