[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#475851: Bug#475851: hal: Brightness keys for Samsung Q45 laptop

[Michael Biebl]

Sam Morris wrote:
> Package: hal
> Version: 0.5.11~rc2-1
> Severity: normal
> 
> Pressing the brigness up/down keys on my laptop causes the following
> kernel messages to be logged:
> 
> atkbd.c: Unknown key pressed (translated set 2, code 0x88 on isa0060/serio0).
> atkbd.c: Use 'setkeycodes e008 <keycode>' to make it known.
> 
> atkbd.c: Unknown key pressed (translated set 2, code 0x89 on isa0060/serio0).
> atkbd.c: Use 'setkeycodes e009 <keycode>' to make it known.
> 
> If I run 'setkeycodes e008 225' and 'setkeycodes e009 224' then HAL
> appears to pick up the keypresses (as can be seen by running 'lshal -m'.
> Although it doesn't actually change the brightness of the screen, I
> guess that is a separate problem?

Does that help:
http://people.freedesktop.org/~hughsient/quirk/quirk-keymap-index.html


Michael

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