Video and Keymap Quirks

[Richard Hughes]

On Tue, 2007-07-10 at 16:23 +0200, Valent Turkovic wrote:
> On Tue, 2007-07-10 at 10:12 +0100, Richard Hughes wrote:
> > You might have heard about the HAL quirk site [1] for suspend and
> > resume
> > quirks before, but now we are collecting keymap quirks to make the
> > special buttons such as multimedia keys and Fn function keys do the
> > right thing. 
> 
> Does this also include usb keyboards or do you only need help with
> laptop keyboards?

Only laptop keyboards. If you read the
http://people.freedesktop.org/~hughsient/quirk/quirk-keymap-intro.html
page then you'll see it only should be used for laptop keyboards.

> I have FC6 running on my work laptop with external USB wireless Labtech
> keyboard. gnome-keybinding-properties recognises all keys I press and I
> can assign them to open my default browser or email program - but I can
> even choose that email button opens terminal or any other combination.
> 
> Can you please explain if you my contribution with even a keyboard that
> is recogniosed by the system (kernel+gnome) or not?

Try with the latest hal-info - I've been adding quirks like there is no
tomorrow all day today :-)

Richard.