On Tue, 19 Jun 2018, Benjamin Berg wrote:
> > That said, it would be nice to know if other models also have this
> > hotkey, especially if it has a different meaning (in which case we just
> > special-case the keymap in the driver, so it is *not* a problem).
>
> I believe this is not specific to the P52 but simply the keyboard
> version that includes a numpad. I only have the P52, but looking at
> photos of e.g. the T570 and T580 the keyboard looks identical there.
Hopefully we get a report from an user of these keyboards. Identical is
good, the only issue would be if they were not identical...
> On a different note, these keyboards also have "=", "(" and ")" keys
> above the numpad. These keys emit the key combinations required for a
> US keyboard layout on the P52 I have. I do believe there is a way to
> set the keyboard layout through ACPI which I suspect changes the
> emitted keycodes to match the expected values for other layouts.
> Unfortunately supporting that seems quite involved.
Yikes. Hopefully we won't need to mess with this.
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Henrique Holschuh
