hi folks... i assume, some of you have already encountered the problem with not-working extra-keys on your laptop. the numerous tools available work by assigning unassigned scancodes to keycodes (to characters/starting programs), as it seems to me. this may be different for tools for specific laptops (like tpctl, i8kutils), which i do not have access to.
the problem arises, when there is no scancode at all for a specific key, when the keyboard controller does not send any code to the driver. you can test this with "showkey -s". and i have seen a couple of laptops which do not generate a scancode when hitting an extra key. it seems that the keyboard driver has to send a magic byte string to the controller for that to work. so does anyone of you have any experience in this regard? anyone who actually did or tried this? tia, sebastian -- ::: sebastian henschel ::: kodeaffe ::: lynx -source http://www.kodeaffe.de/shensche.pub | gpg --import
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