[OmniBook] Toshiba Satellite M40X hotkeys

[Bruno Ducrot]

On Thu, Feb 23, 2006 at 09:03:58AM +0100, Julien Valroff wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Does anybody has some ideas for the following?
> 
> Thanks in advance!
> Cheers,
> Julien
> 
> Le samedi 28 janvier 2006 à 09:03 +0100, Julien Valroff a écrit :
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I own a Satellite M40X laptop with a Phoenix bios, and cannot figure out
> > how to make *some* hotkeys work.
> > 
> > Using the last omnibook kernel module (with ectype=12), most of the
> > hotkeys work (and especially the multimedia keys at the left of the
> > keyboard).
> > When I say "work", I mean they do generate scandodes that I can bind
> > easily using setkeycodes.
> > 
> > Other keys that do not work (ie. do not send scancodes) at all are:
> > * fn+Esc (volume control) 
> > * fn+F2 (sitch on/off screen) 
> > * fn+F3 (suspend to ram)
> > * fn+F4 (suspend to disk) 
> > * fn+F6 (reduce lcd brightness) 
> > * fn+f8 (activate/deactivate wifi chip) 
> > 
> > (fn+F6 and fn+F5 actually *do* reduce/lower lcd brightness level, but
> > only fn+F5 sends a scancode)
> > 
> > I cannot figure out why some keys work, some others don't.
> > 
> > Non-working keys do not send ACPI events.

Fn+F3 and Fn+F4 should generate ACPI events for sure.  If that don't work for
you, then contact acpi devlopper mailing list, since this will not be
a problem for omke.


> > So far, I have tried many other drivers (i8k, acerhk, etc.) without
> > success.
> > 
> > I saw in the source code that key-polling exist only for 2.4 kernels (I
> > use 2.6 kernels).
> > Is there anything that can be done to make these keys send scancodes?
> > 
> > Unfortunately, I have no development knowledge, but can help for testing
> > or write to Toshiba or Phoenix, and many people seem to be very
> > interested in further development of omnibook module to make their
> > laptop 100% usable with GNU/Linux.
> > 
> > Note that I will write a patch to add support for M40X, but would like
> > to fix this annoying problem before.

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