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Re: 2.4.22-ben2 : backlight (F1/F2) not working on console, little freeze



> On Tue, 2003-09-09 at 00:04, Julien BLACHE wrote:
> > Stewart Smith <stewart@flamingspork.com> wrote:
> > > Are you getting a message like "keyboard: unknown scancode e0 4c" on
> > > your console/in your syslog?
> >
> > Exactly.
>
> Try the attached patch, should apply to 2.4.22 too.....
>
> i haven't actually tried it, and i don't see why it would make the
> buttons work (maybe it will, the place i was at while researching this

The buttons worked all the time. You just get rid of the warning message
(and perhaps stop the keyboard driver from passing on the brightness key
events to userland).

That's actually a known issue.

> I'm not quite sure what effect this could have on machines that don't
> already have this issue.... guess i'll ask around :)

None - they would have gotten the same warning message if there was a key
using the same scancode, otherwise.

	Michael



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