multimedia keys, F10

[oleksandr korneta]

on 01/11/2009 02:21 PM oleksandr korneta wrote:
> on 01/09/2009 01:49 AM Rahul Sundaram wrote:
>> oleksandr korneta wrote:
>>> hello,
>>>
>>> can anyone help me to make my multimedia keyboard work under F10?
>>> Any suggestions  how to make my multimedia keys work again are appreciated
>> Refer
>>
>> http://people.freedesktop.org/~hughsient/quirk/
> 
> 
> thanks,  but this is a dead end. That quirk presumes that your 
> multimedia keys produce some events in either xev or dmesg or at least 
> "sometimes work using extra software like tpd and lineakd". Well, I 
> repeat my keys produce no output neither xev nor dmesg. Lineakd again 
> relies on xev output so the circle closes, and I was not able to find 
> that tpd software but I assume this is something for Lenovo Thinkpad 
> laptops so not applicable for my Microsoft keyboard.
> 
> This keyboard used to work just perfectly in F8 with kbd driver and I 
> still believe it is possible to make it work with evdev.
> 
> 
> 

ok, a little bit more research reveals that all my problems are because 
of the kernel bug http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11759
which is a result of some improvement. This resulted in a bunch of 
people with broken keyboards . There's a temporary patch turning off 
that improvement, but you need to recompile the kernel module and no 
permanent solution exists so far.

-- 
regards,
Oleksandr Korneta

I'm running F9 x86_64 and F10 i386 on x86_64 hardware, should this matter.

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