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Vladislav IV

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Registered: 2008-06-23

Posts: 30

Compaq 6510b HAL keymap quirk does nothing

Hi all !

I wanted to drop keytouch and try out hal for my laptop's bonus keys. I added all the infos needed in the right fdi file :

<match key="/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/computer:system.hardware.product" contains="6510b">
          <append key="input.keymap.data" type="strlist">e001:fn_esc</append>    <!-- FnEsc -->
          <append key="input.keymap.data" type="strlist">e008:presentation</append>    <!-- presentation -->
          <append key="input.keymap.data" type="strlist">e009:battery</append>    <!-- FnF8 (battery) -->
          <append key="input.keymap.data" type="strlist">e00a:screenlock</append>    <!-- FnF6 Lock -->
          <append key="input.keymap.data" type="strlist">e059:info</append>    <!-- I key -->
          <append key="info.capabilities" type="strlist">input.keymap</append>
</match>

In fact, it was a copy/paste of another section, with only a removed key binding. The codes was OK.

After restarting hal, I checked the keymap in use :

$ lshal | grep keymap
  info.callouts.add = {'hal-setup-keymap'} (string list)
  info.capabilities = {'input', 'input.keyboard', 'input.keypad', 'input.keys', 'input.keymap', 'button'} (string list)
  input.keymap.data = {'e001:fn_esc', 'e008:presentation', 'e009:battery', 'e00a:screenlock', 'e059:info'} (string list)

It seemed OK. But when I launched xev and pressed any key, for example the info key, no events were triggered and the following was immediately added to /var/log/everything.log :

Jun 25 14:45:54 portable atkbd.c: Unknown key pressed (translated set 2, code 0xd9 on isa0060/serio0).
Jun 25 14:45:54 portable atkbd.c: Use 'setkeycodes e059 <keycode>' to make it known.
Jun 25 14:45:54 portable atkbd.c: Unknown key released (translated set 2, code 0xd9 on isa0060/serio0).
Jun 25 14:45:54 portable atkbd.c: Use 'setkeycodes e059 <keycode>' to make it known.

After that I found a patch for my laptop on the hal quirks site (http://www.nabble.com/Keymap-patch-for- … 55220.html), but it did not worked. The extra keys are always unknown.

I searched the Web but don't found anything on this problem. Any idea on what can cause it ?

Kernel 2.6.25, hal 0.5.11-1, Arch up-to-date.
DAEMONS=(syslog-ng acpid @cpufreqd @sensors network openntpd netfs crond @alsa @hal !keytouch slim)

Oops, double post... If any admin can delete this topic sorry.

Last edited by Vladislav IV (2008-06-25 13:37:14)