atkbd w 2.6.2rc1 : HowTo for extra (inet) keys ?
Hello again.
I just reverted my atkbd.c code to your version (Linus's tree) and unfortunately have 4 keys 'missing' from my HP Omnibook XE3GC extra "internet keys".
Question 1: Can I fix the table from userland, using some utility? That is, can I upload an updated table into the kernel, so that I don't have to reboot?
Q 2: Do you have any HowTo/QA for that?
Q 3: Will that work under X? (which AFAIK reads the 'raw' codes) Q 4: It has been rather difficult for me to compute the scancodes needed for the table. Could you put the "formula" onto the HowTo?
Thanks.
FYI, the codes are:
"www": Unknown key pressed (translated set 2, code 0xf3 on isa0060/serio0). "Mail": Unknown key pressed (translated set 2, code 0xf4 on isa0060/serio0). "Launch": Unknown key pressed (translated set 2, code 0xf2 on isa0060/serio0). "Help": Unknown key pressed (translated set 2, code 0xf1 on isa0060/serio0).
Quoted 7 lines · P. Christeas
Hello again.
I just reverted myatkbd.ccode to your version (Linus's tree) and unfortunately have 4 keys 'missing' from my HP Omnibook XE3GC extra "internet keys".
Question 1: Can I fix the table from userland, using some utility? That is, can I upload an updated table into the kernel, so that I don't have to reboot?
'setkeycodes' can do that.
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Q 2: Do you have any HowTo/QA for that?
Not yet, but I'll have to write one.
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Q 3: Will that work under X? (which AFAIK reads the 'raw' codes)
X needs to be set up as well. In 2.6, X doesn't get real raw codes but instead simulated raw codes generated by the kernel.
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Q 4: It has been rather difficult for me to compute the scancodes needed for the table. Could you put the "formula" onto the HowTo?
FYI, the codes are:
"www": Unknown key pressed (translated set 2, code0xf3on isa0060/serio0). "Mail": Unknown key pressed (translated set 2, code0xf4on isa0060/serio0). "Launch": Unknown key pressed (translated set 2, code0xf2on isa0060/serio0). "Help": Unknown key pressed (translated set 2, code0xf1on isa0060/serio0).
The formula for setkeycodes is:
if (code > 0x100)
you're out of luck, setkeycodes doesn't handle this yet; else if (code > 0x80) result = code - 0x80 + 0xe000; else result = code;
And then you use 'setkeycodes result keycode',
where keycode you find in include/linux/input.h.
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Vojtech Pavlik SuSE Labs, SuSE CR
Solved: atkbd w 2.6.2rc1 : HowTo for extra (inet) keys ?
After spending my evening on it :-( I managed to find the correct keys for the Omnibook XE3:
(I could only reverse-engineer the previous hack I 've had for it) Download and hack the 'console-tools' package (from sourceforge, project "lct") so that 'setkeycodes' does accept keycodes >127.
Vojtech, is 512 the upper bound for <keycode> at setkeycodes?
Using 2.6.2-rc1, issue:
setkeycodes e071 236
setkeycodes e072 237
setkeycodes e073 238
setkeycodes e074 239
so that the upper (near the screen) row of "internet" buttons is assigned to
the keys X expect to receive.
e071 etc. can be found using 'showkey -s'
I still don't get where 236 came from (so that I could help other kbds, as well).
Quoted 42 lines · P. Christeas
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Hello again.
I just reverted myatkbd.ccode to your version (Linus's tree) and unfortunately have 4 keys 'missing' from my HP Omnibook XE3GC extra "internet keys".
Question 1: Can I fix the table from userland, using some utility? That is, can I upload an updated table into the kernel, so that I don't have to reboot?'setkeycodes' can do that.
Quoted 1 line
Q 2: Do you have any HowTo/QA for that?
Not yet, but I'll have to write one.
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Q 3: Will that work under X? (which AFAIK reads the 'raw' codes)
X needs to be set up as well. In 2.6, X doesn't get real raw codes but instead simulated raw codes generated by the kernel.
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Q 4: It has been rather difficult for me to compute the scancodes needed for the table. Could you put the "formula" onto the HowTo?
FYI, the codes are:
"www": Unknown key pressed (translated set 2, code0xf3on isa0060/serio0). "Mail": Unknown key pressed (translated set 2, code0xf4on isa0060/serio0). "Launch": Unknown key pressed (translated set 2, code0xf2on isa0060/serio0). "Help": Unknown key pressed (translated set 2, code0xf1on isa0060/serio0).The formula for setkeycodes is:
if (code >
0x100)you're out of luck, setkeycodes doesn't handle this yet; else if (code > 0x80) result = code - 0x80 + 0xe000; else result = code;And then you use 'setkeycodes result keycode',
where keycode you find in
include/linux/input.h.
Re: Solved: atkbd w 2.6.2rc1 : HowTo for extra (inet) keys ?
Quoted 14 lines · P. Christeas
After spending my evening on it :-( I managed to find the correct keys for the Omnibook XE3:
(I could only reverse-engineer the previous hack I 've had for it) Download and hack the 'console-tools' package (from sourceforge, project "lct") so that 'setkeycodes' does accept keycodes >127.Vojtech, is 512 the upper bound for <keycode> at setkeycodes?
Using 2.6.2-rc1, issue:
setkeycodes e071 236
setkeycodes e072 237
setkeycodes e073 238
setkeycodes e074 239
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so that the upper (near the screen) row of "internet" buttons is assigned to
the keys X expect to receive.
e071 etc. can be found using 'showkey -s'
I still don't get where 236 came from (so that I could help other kbds, as well).
The almost right solution here would be to write an xkb keyboard description that matches the 2.6 keycode->scancode mappings, so that once you get the 'setkeycodes' command right, both the kernel and X will understand the keys correctly.
With your approach you got the keys correct solely in X, not the kernel.
I'll take a look at this.
The completely right approach would be to teach X to either use the event interface or at least the medium raw mode.
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Quoted 42 lines · P. Christeas
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Hello again.
I just reverted myatkbd.ccode to your version (Linus's tree) and unfortunately have 4 keys 'missing' from my HP Omnibook XE3GC extra "internet keys".
Question 1: Can I fix the table from userland, using some utility? That is, can I upload an updated table into the kernel, so that I don't have to reboot?'setkeycodes' can do that.
Quoted 1 line
Q 2: Do you have any HowTo/QA for that?
Not yet, but I'll have to write one.
Quoted 1 line
Q 3: Will that work under X? (which AFAIK reads the 'raw' codes)
X needs to be set up as well. In 2.6, X doesn't get real raw codes but instead simulated raw codes generated by the kernel.
Quoted 9 lines
Q 4: It has been rather difficult for me to compute the scancodes needed for the table. Could you put the "formula" onto the HowTo?
FYI, the codes are:
"www": Unknown key pressed (translated set 2, code0xf3on isa0060/serio0). "Mail": Unknown key pressed (translated set 2, code0xf4on isa0060/serio0). "Launch": Unknown key pressed (translated set 2, code0xf2on isa0060/serio0). "Help": Unknown key pressed (translated set 2, code0xf1on isa0060/serio0).The formula for setkeycodes is:
if (code >
0x100)you're out of luck, setkeycodes doesn't handle this yet; else if (code > 0x80) result = code - 0x80 + 0xe000; else result = code;And then you use 'setkeycodes result keycode',
where keycode you find in
include/linux/input.h.
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Vojtech Pavlik SuSE Labs, SuSE CR
Re: Solved: atkbd w 2.6.2rc1 : HowTo for extra (inet) keys ?
In reply to P. ChristeasQuoted 2 lines · P. Christeas
Download and hack the 'console-tools' package (from sourceforge, project "lct") so that 'setkeycodes' does accept keycodes >127.
It sounds as if you think that the kbd setkeycodes does not handle keycodes above 127, but it does. No hacking required.
Re: [OmniBook] Re: Solved: atkbd w 2.6.2rc1 : HowTo for extra (inet) keys ?
There is an Omnibook module on Sourceforge that contains all the key information for a variety of models. Furthermore, utilities such as hotkeys will let you use the keys from within X with very little configuration. No hacking required there either.
Regards,
Nigel
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Quoted 2 lines · P. Christeas
Download and hack the 'console-tools' package (from sourceforge, project "lct") so that 'setkeycodes' does accept keycodes >127.
It sounds as if you think that the kbd setkeycodes does not handle keycodes above 127, but it does. No hacking required.
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