Compaq OneTouch requires knock-code for some hotkeys

[Hein-PietervanBraam]

due to the need to do some poking of the keyboard controller, some compaq hotkeys do not work out of the box.

[Hein-PietervanBraam (hp)]

this adds a perl script to the hotkeys package, note that this makes hotkey-setup depend on perl.

also note the FIXME's in the hp.hk for the missing keycodes.

[Gaëtan Petit (gaetanp)]

you may set this bug to "fix commited" and assign it to laptop-team

tenshu

[Paul Sladen (sladen)]

Hi Hein, thanks very much for your patch; currently there is now some commented out code in:

  /etc/init.d/hotkey-setup

which is:

        case "$name" in
            # Please open a bug if uncommenting these "Presario" entries works for you...
            #*Presario\ V2000*)
            #. /usr/share/hotkey-setup/hp-v2000.hk
            #;;

Does uncommenting this do anything for you, or does it still require the knock sequence that perl script provides.

I'd love to apply this so if you're able to do some futher testing that would be appreciated (I would probably prefer to ship a C version of the script).

[Paul Sladen (sladen)]

Matthew, where were you adding knock-sequeneces, should these go in-kernel?

[Alexandre Otto Strube (surak)]

Paul, Matthew this was about a month ago. Any news on this issue? Thanks a lot!

[Paul Sladen (sladen)]

Hein-PietervanBraam: I need some confirmation before I a patch introducing your 'knock' sequences; could you review the bug details above.

[Paul Sladen (sladen)]

Finally managed to track down another reference to the information above, the talk here is all about HP Onmibooks and Onetouch:

  http://lists.debian.org/debian-laptop/2002/02/msg00299.html (cross-post)
  http://martigny.ai.mit.edu/pipermail/omnibook/2002-February/001041.html kbd(port=0x59, cmd=0x90) patch
  http://martigny.ai.mit.edu/pipermail/omnibook/2002-February/001060.html (scancodes for e071-e074)

and then in:

  http://people.via.ecp.fr/~fabrice/presario/2.6.0-all-in-1.patch
  #define OMNIBOOK_KBC_CONTROL_CMD 0x59
  #define OMNIBOOK_KBC_CMD_ONETOUCH_ENABLE 0x90 /* Enables OneTouch buttons */
  # define OMNIBOOK_KBC_CMD_ONETOUCH_DISABLE 0x91 /* Disables OneTouch buttons */

and various other crack like toggling the touchpad, AC and backlight via the same means and a nice long DMI table to match against including a few Acer's and Toshiba's.

Still wondering what the 0x8f code is.

[Paul Sladen (sladen)]

Hein-PietervanBraam: any news on this. Do you still have access to the Compaq OneTouch hardware?

[Hein-PietervanBraam (hp)]

I do not, and I completely forgot to update the bugreport. The laptop died quite a while back :(
I'm sorry

[Steve Langasek (vorlon)]

The hotkey-setup package is now obsolete. If fixes are still needed for these keys, this should preferably be added to the kernel instead of having to fix this up in userspace.

Since you don't have the hardware to test whether this is still needed, I'm going to close out this report.