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syco

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Registered: 2008-11-06

Posts: 20

keyboard hardware key not working

hi,
i'm trying to set the keyboard hardware keys of my vaio, this is the output of a few commands;
sto cercando di impostare le hardware key del mio vaio, butto qua qualche comando per capire meglio:

cat /sys/class/dmi/id/sys_vendor
Sony Corporation

cat /sys/class/dmi/id/product_name 
VPCS11E7E

xev: no output.

showkey -k
keycode 360 press
keycode 360 release

showkey -s: no output

/lib/udev/keymap -i input/event6
scan code: 0x49   key code: vendor

xbindkeys -mk: no output.

is there something useful?

- i've created the file "/lib/udev/keymaps/module-sony-vpcs11e7e"
with this text:

0x49 vendor # VAIO

and i've inserted it in "/lib/udev/rules.d/95-keymap.rules" without results.

- i've created a "file" with this text:

keycode 360 = Super_R Super_R Super_R

and then i used the command

xmodmap file

without results.

what i've to do??

Last edited by syco (2011-08-05 13:06:16)

jeff story

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Registered: 2009-05-31

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Re: keyboard hardware key not working

This might help you out.

https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=123346

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ewaller

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Re: keyboard hardware key not working

What happens if you press the key in question then perform a dmesg | tail
Any messages like these:

[136424.699297] atkbd serio0: Unknown key released (translated set 2, code 0x94 on isa0060/serio0).
[136424.699303] atkbd serio0: Use 'setkeycodes e014 <keycode>' to make it known.

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syco

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Registered: 2008-11-06

Posts: 20

Re: keyboard hardware key not working

@ewaller: with dmesg i have no output
@jeff story: i have already tried to use xmodmap with keycode 360, but it has no effect.