hi.. Received at 2003-02-04 / 15:50 by Socheat Sou: > 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). toshiba satellite 3000-601 (but i noticed not-working extra-keys with an asus l3800c as well). i cannot load the module "toshiba_acpi" on my machine. well, according to http://www.buzzard.org.uk/toshiba/, the 3000 series is weird, anyway. cheers, sebastian > On Tue, 2003-02-04 at 06:14, Sebastian Henschel wrote: > > > > 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? -- ::: sebastian henschel ::: kodeaffe ::: lynx -source http://www.kodeaffe.de/shensche.pub | gpg --import
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