Re: 2.6.12-rc4 broke right <win>-key

[Ville Herva <vherva@vianova.fi>]

On Fri, May 27, 2005 at 11:46:42AM -0500, you [Dmitry Torokhov] wrote:
> On 5/27/05, Ville Herva <vherva@vianova.fi> wrote:
> > After upgrading from 2.6.11-rc1-ck2 to 2.6.12-rc4, the right <win>-key on my
> > HP "multimedia" keyboard (something like http://www.pc-netto.dk/templates/product.asp?productguid=C4742B%23ABY&groupguid=11437)
> > seized to work. The left one still works. The earlier kernels I've run
> > never showed this problem (although the multimedia keys seem to map to
> > different codes in each and every kernel version, which is slightly
> > annoying.) The older kernels I've tried include 2.6.8.1-mm2, 2.6.8.1,
> > 2.6.6-mm4, 2.6.3, and a heap of 2.4 kernels.
> > 
> 
> Hi,
> 
> This patch from Vojtech shoudl get you going:
> 
> http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=111712306027138&q=raw

Ahh, thanks. 

I tried to find previous discussion on this issue before posting but
apparently was too negligent.

Also Domen Puncer's suggested workaround
    echo -n "0" > /sys/bus/serio/devices/serio1/scroll
in the same thread seems to work.


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