From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Wed, 9 Oct 2002 07:32:03 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Wed, 9 Oct 2002 07:32:02 -0400 Received: from twilight.ucw.cz ([195.39.74.230]:42880 "EHLO twilight.ucw.cz") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Wed, 9 Oct 2002 07:32:02 -0400 Date: Wed, 9 Oct 2002 13:37:38 +0200 From: Vojtech Pavlik To: Alan Cox Cc: Vojtech Pavlik , Linus Torvalds , Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: Input - Only try to enable extra keys if user requested it [2/3] Message-ID: <20021009133738.D815@ucw.cz> References: <20021009101256.A10748@ucw.cz> <20021009130035.A367@ucw.cz> <20021009130123.B367@ucw.cz> <1034163931.1323.3.camel@irongate.swansea.linux.org.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <1034163931.1323.3.camel@irongate.swansea.linux.org.uk>; from alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk on Wed, Oct 09, 2002 at 12:45:31PM +0100 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, Oct 09, 2002 at 12:45:31PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote: > On Wed, 2002-10-09 at 12:01, Vojtech Pavlik wrote: > > Don't try to enable extra keys on IBM/Chicony keyboards as this upsets > > several notebook keyboards. Until we find a better solution how to detect > > who are we talking to, we rely on the kernel command line. Use > > atkbd_set=4 to gain access to the extra keys. > > Surely this also wants a runtime option, or do you assume its fixable > somehow ? I hope I'll be able to find a way how to distinguish between the notebook keyboards and the extra-key keyboards. I'm developing a keyboard/mouse analyzer module. ;) On the other hand, 2.4 doesn't support this feature at all. So rebooting or reloading the atkbd module should suffice for now. -- Vojtech Pavlik SuSE Labs