xserver-xorg-input-evdev eats my eject key
Daniel Stone
daniel at fooishbar.org
Sat Mar 8 02:07:18 PST 2008
On Sat, Mar 08, 2008 at 10:36:52AM +0100, John Hughes wrote:
> I've got a Sony Vaio TX3 laptop, with some extra buttons, running Debian
> Sid, kernel 2.6.24.
>
> The sony-laptop module makes a new input device to represent these extra
> buttons. This is nicely detected by HAL and so evdev:
>
> [...]
>
> One of which has a "dvd eject" symbol on it. When pressed the keycode
> KEY_FN_E (0x1e1) is produced.
>
> After much debugging I've found that it gets at least as far as
> EvdevKeyProcess in evdev_key.c, but some time after that the key
> disappears into a black hole - xev &c don't see it.
>
> Where should I be looking?
Unfortunately this is next-to-impossible to do within the protocol:
http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=x11-keycode-limit
(0x1e1 = 481)
Cheers,
Daniel
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