[laptop-discuss] Keyboard support for HP nx6325

[Garrett D'Amore]

Roman Morokutti wrote:
> Hi,
>
> how to get the function keys to work with Solaris? I tried xev to
> gather information about the keys. But for the function keys there
> seem to be no recognition by the OS. xev does not correspond when
> I press the special keys, like the mute-key, or the wireless-key for
> example.
>
> How to get these to work? Many thanks if one could help me on that
> issue.
>
> Roman
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A lot of these laptops use "special" bindings for these keys... they
aren't presented as normal keystrokes to the operating system. 
(Sometimes they are ACPI events, GPIOs, etc.)

Sometimes they are "magic" PS2 keycodes, which Solaris doesn't know about.

The best way to get these supported is to first find out from HP how
they are presented to the OS (e.g. ACPI events, PS2 keycodes, alternate
USB HID report, etc.) and then we can see if it makes sense to try to
support them.

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Garrett D'Amore, Principal Software Engineer
Tadpole Computer / Computing Technologies Division,
General Dynamics C4 Systems
http://www.tadpolecomputer.com/
Phone: 951 325-2134  Fax: 951 325-2191