Re: On a sony VAIO Z12C5E: sony-laptop: Unknown event: 0x100 0xa6, etc.

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On 24 November 2010 23:30, Mattia Dongili <malattia@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 24, 2010 at 07:22:55PM +0100, Gyorgy Jeney wrote:
>> CDROM eject key pressed: sony-laptop: Unknown event: 0x100 0xa4
>> CDROM eject key released: sony-laptop: Unknown event: 0x100 0x24
>>
>> What bothers me about this is I get a bunch of messages on my console
>> each time the DVD tray is opened, but I guess it shouldn't be hard to
>
> Humm, do you mean that you get that 0xa4 event when pressing the button
> _on_ the CD tray or is there an extra button somewhere that triggers
> that?

This model doesn't have a button on the tray.  The only eject button
is located above the keyboard to the right of the VAIO key.

>> make these events "do the right thing".
>
> yes, it's easy with the information you provided.
> The attached patch should get the keys reported on the input subsystem
> and show up on the event device (check with evtest) and X (check with
> xev).

Thanks, I'll install your patch and test this tomorrow.

> One last thing, to keep my DSDT list up-to-date would you mind sending
> me the dump of your laptop's DSDT table?

I was going to poke around with debug=1 added to the sony-laptop
module before sending that, but since you asked, I'll send this to you
privately now.

nog.
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