Hello, Check out http://sf.net/projects/omke. We started this as HP Omnibook-only support but eventually people discovered that many laptops shared the extra-key enabling scheme. Currently there is support for various HP Omnibooks, Pavillions, Toshiba Satellites and Compals.
Regards, Pavel > 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 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
