[OmniBook] Toshiba Satellite M40X hotkeys

[Julien Valroff]

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.
> 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.
> 
> Cheers,
> Julien