[alsa-devel] OFFTOPIC atkbd.c: Use 'setkeycodes... (Was: Re: My Codec: IDT 92HD75B3X5 issues)

Simos Xenitellis simos.lists at googlemail.com
Fri Oct 2 16:24:10 CEST 2009


On Fri, Oct 2, 2009 at 3:41 PM, Lennart Poettering <mznyfn at 0pointer.de> wrote:
> On Fri, 02.10.09 15:12, Simos Xenitellis (simos.lists at googlemail.com) wrote:
>
>> Those keys are a 'HAL' thing. Until recently there has been a website
>> by the HAL developer
>> with detailed instructions. Search for 'HAL Quirk Site' on Google to
>> view the site in Google cache.
>> The website was not updated for some time
>> (http://www.mail-archive.com/pm-utils@lists.freedesktop.org/msg01594.html)
>> and being obsolete, it was probably taken down.
>> Your changes would need to make it eventually to the hal-info repository,
>> http://cgit.freedesktop.org/hal-info/
>> Use the Freedesktop Bugzilla, product 'hal' and component 'hal-info'
>> when reporting,
>> https://bugs.freedesktop.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=hal
>
> That is actually no true anymore. HAL is dead and the keycode stuff
> has been moved to udev:
>
> http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/hotplug/udev.git;a=tree;f=extras/keymap/keymaps

Oh, thanks for these.
I'll update my tune.

Cheers,
Simos


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