Re: Special keys on Dell XPS L502X

2012-03-16 Thread My Th
Thanks for the tip! I have tried to use evtest and here are results. Key I: -- I still get two key press events for this button and it is puzzling how I could use it to get a single action. Event: time 1331919071.656104, type 4 (EV_MSC), code 4 (MSC_SCAN), value db Event: time 1331919071.65

Special keys on Dell XPS L502X

2012-03-12 Thread My Th
Hi! I used "showkey" from console to get scancodes and keycodes for the three buttons. Also used "dumpkeys" to look up the keycodes. But these results are different from the ones I got using "xev" (see previous mail). Key I: -- scancode 0xe0 0x5b 0x2d 0xad 0xe0 0xdb keycode 125 press keycod

Special keys on Dell XPS L502X

2012-03-12 Thread My Th
Hi! I have Dell XPS L502X laptop and it has three special keys, but they are not working out-of-the-box. I wanted to assign functions to them (e.g. toogle LCD backlight) so I used xev to look for their keycodes as described at http://linux.oneandoneis2.org/keys.htm But these special keys behave d