From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Thu, 13 Sep 2001 06:46:54 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Thu, 13 Sep 2001 06:46:34 -0400 Received: from mailout05.sul.t-online.com ([194.25.134.82]:25862 "EHLO mailout05.sul.t-online.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Thu, 13 Sep 2001 06:46:28 -0400 Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2001 12:46:23 +0200 From: Erich Schubert To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Compaq Presario Notebook Keyboard "Extensions" Message-ID: <20010913124623.A22927@erich.xmldesign.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.20i X-GPG: 4B3A135C 6073 C874 8488 BCDA A6A9 B761 9ED0 78EF 4B3A 135C Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Compaq Presario Notebooks (i don't know which ones, at least my Presario 1400 and a friend's Presario 1200) have some additional Keys on the keyboard These keys apparently do not generate scancodes, i also noticed no interrupts being generated. I also tried using "kbd-init", but it didn't help either. I tried getting information from Compaq, but from their support adress i got only trashy responses ("we don't support linux on this unix, but you can try the following [... guide how to connect to the internet with windows ...]") Searching with google i found lot's of requests in newsgroups, the suggestions of using showkeys and xev, but no solution. Any idea how i might get these keys to work? I was wondering if there might be an additional set of scancodes, or some other initialization of the keyboard driver required. Perhaps someone has contacts to compaq and could get this information from them. They have some detailed information about their armada notebook series on their webpage (with detailed listing of non-standard keycodes etc.), but i could not find analogical information on these Presario Notebooks. http://www.compaq.com/support/techpubs/technical_reference_guides/ Thanks for your great work on the Linux kernel. Greetings, Erich