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pageicon Tuesday Aug 10, 2004

Getting the mute and volume keys working in x86

Around April I logged a bug to try and get this stuff working. I had managed a very kludgy binary patching process to get it working with Xsun, but had also decided to switch to Xorg (speed reasons mainly), so I was out in the cold again.

I'm running a modified version of the kb8042 driver which returns the right keycode/scancode mapping for them. The next trick was to see how how the Xorg xserver reacted to this. Not good. We get a whole lot of complaints in /var/log/Xorg.log.0 about KEY_UNUSED whenever I press or release one.

Hmmmm, ...

Time to hit the Xorg source code. It looks like there is a map into which I have to add in the keysymbol numbers. OK, I have patched those into the binary with mdb. The errors have stopped, but now whenever I try to map those keys to their functions in the gnome keyboard shortcuts, pressing the key undefines the function (just like if I had pressed backspace).

Gawd it's frustrating to be soooooo close. Maybe something will occur to me overnight.

Posted at 05:08PM Aug 10, 2004 by Alan Hargreaves in Solaris Express  |