Re: Compaq Presario Notebook Keyboard "Extensions"

[Francis Galiegue]

On Thu, 13 Sep 2001, Erich Schubert wrote:

>
> Compaq Presario Notebooks (i don't know which ones, at least my Presario
> 1400 and a friend's Presario 1200) have some additional Keys on the keyboard
>
> These keys apparently do not generate scancodes, i also noticed no
> interrupts being generated.
> I also tried using "kbd-init", but it didn't help either.
>

Exactly the same here. I've been playing some time with extra keys,
either on PC keyboards and notebooks. My Compaq Presario 1926 just acts
like yours when I hit these extra keys: nothing to be seen. Maybe a
dedicated I/O port? Haven't tried yet.

I've also seen two other cases: keys generating NMIs (yes!) and keys
directly "attacking" hardware. In either case, showkey -s doesn't show
anything. On all desktop PC keyboards that I could lay my hands on
otherwise, it generates e0 xx scancodes on press and e0 (xx | 0x80) on
release. Some of these scancodes even seem to be standard (volume up and
down, play and pause key...). I made a dedicated driver to handle these
keys for 2.2 already. Not yet ported to 2.4.

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