On Wed, Jul 11, 2007 at 09:29:54PM +0100, Richard Hughes wrote: > On Wed, 2007-07-11 at 15:05 -0500, Michael E Brown wrote: > > On Tue, Jul 10, 2007 at 12:40:18PM +0100, Richard Hughes wrote: > > > On Tue, 2007-07-10 at 13:31 +0200, Hans de Goede wrote: > > > > Great that you're working on this and targeting F-8 with it. Unfortunately > > > > having only scancode -> keycode mappings in the kernel is not enough to make > > > > most keys just work. This also requires mapping to X keysyms and configurations > > > > of applications. > > > > > > Sure, but this is the first part of the jigsaw. For stuff like > > > rfkill-input we need the kernel to _know_ that KEY_FN_F1 is actually > > > KEY_BLUETOOTH. When X switches to evdev (soon?) the keysym problem > > > should be a lot simpler to fix. > > > > Does the kernel have a concept for a key that can be on-the-fly > > configured to individually turn on/off any combination of wlan, > > bluetooth and/or cellular modems? > > Err, we can use the setkeycode ioctl to remap the button, but I'm > guessing this isn't the answer to the question you are asking. I havent had a lot of time to pursue it, but I have seen several people working on things to handle killswitches. The problem I've seen is that several of them dont take into account features that the Dell notebooks have: software configurable killswitches, and killswitch for cellular in particular. Part of the problem would be that I dont know exactly who to talk to... > > Recent Dell laptops all have a wireless switch. This switch can be > > configured at runtime by dellWirelessCtl (part of libsmbios-bin) to > > individually turn on/off any combination of each of the above. > > We could hook this up to HAL (although I'm not sure yet how) but I'm > guessing the most sane thing to do would be to tie it to a hardware > killswitch that killed all the wireless devices for aircraft scenario. I wrote dellWirelessCtl. There was a patch a while back that integrated it into HAL, but I didnt write that. -- Michael -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
