On Wed, Jan 05, 2011 at 02:18:00PM +0100, Stephan Mueller wrote: > Am Mittwoch, 5. Januar 2011, um 07:13:35 schrieb Mattia Dongili: > > On Tue, Jan 04, 2011 at 04:40:02PM +0100, Stephan Mueller wrote: ... > > > - none of the keys mapped to zoom seem to have any effect on my system - > > > xev does not report the keys when they are pressed - but dmesg does not > > > list omitted keys either - how are the zoom keys supposed to work? > > > > use /lib/udev/keymap to find out what is being emitted by the kernel > > (you should know it actually by looking at the number associated to > > SONYPI_EVENT_ZOOM_PRESSED). If the number is >255 you need remapping > > that to a lower number, see here for a longer explanation: > > http://www.linux.it/~malattia/wiki/index.php/Sony-laptop#Fn_keys_in_X > > If the number is <255 it's just your system is not configured to handle > > the key. > > Again, before considering that, I think I should see events in xev. As I do not really, sony-laptop emits input events via the input layer, Xorg reads them with the evdev driver and pushes them over to graphical apps. > not see them, I am scratching my head where the events are lost. try /lib/udev/keymap, if that sees the events (with your patch applied) then Xorg is eating your key presses. > Note, that issue with the zoom keys apply also to the zoom-in and zoom-out > keys that are already present in the driver. None of them end up visible in > xev. Wait, I'm confused. What zoom keys have you got and what should they do? do you really have zoom-in, zoom-out and a generic zoom? Thanks -- mattia :wq! -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe platform-driver-x86" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
