Fn-F8 broken on Dell E6410

[Vladimir Prus]

Binary package hint: udev

Pressing Fn-F8 appears to produce symbol 'p' on Maverick beta. keymap -i reports two scan codes when Fn-F8 is pressed:
0xDB (leftmeta) and 0x19 (p). When I press Fn and hold it, no scancode is reported -- both scancodes are reported when F8 is later pressed with Fn still held. README.keymap.txt does not say how to fix such situation, so all I can do is report all data.

$ cat /sys/class/dmi/id/sys_vendor
Dell Inc.

$ cat /sys/class/dmi/id/product_name
Latitude E6410

Keymap and udev db will be attached.

[Vladimir Prus (vladimir-prus)]

Also, Fn+F2 (disable battery charge), Fn+F3 (battery), Fn+F7 (DCP) produce no scan codes at all. Here "disable battery charge" is supposed to make laptop stop charging a battery, and "DCP" on windows pops up some Dell utility. I suppose the latter makes no sense on Linux, while the former can be potentially useful. Also, Fn-F10 and Fn-F11 produce the same scancode 0xB7 -- while they should produce different ones for sysrq and printscreen respectively.

[Vladimir Prus (vladimir-prus)]

I've tried to enable low-level debugging with:

echo 1 > /sys/module/i8042/parameters/debug

What I get is this:

Nov 22 20:28:31 thunder kernel: [ 7063.583624] /build/buildd/linux-2.6.35/drivers/input/serio/i8042.c: e0 <- i8042 (interrupt, 0, 1) [1768702]
Nov 22 20:28:31 thunder kernel: [ 7063.583697] /build/buildd/linux-2.6.35/drivers/input/serio/i8042.c: 5b <- i8042 (interrupt, 0, 1) [1768702]
Nov 22 20:28:31 thunder kernel: [ 7063.583767] /build/buildd/linux-2.6.35/drivers/input/serio/i8042.c: 19 <- i8042 (interrupt, 0, 1) [1768702]

Nov 22 20:28:33 thunder kernel: [ 7065.812387] /build/buildd/linux-2.6.35/drivers/input/serio/i8042.c: 99 <- i8042 (interrupt, 0, 1) [1769260]

Nov 22 20:28:48 thunder kernel: [ 7080.289168] /build/buildd/linux-2.6.35/drivers/input/serio/i8042.c: e0 <- i8042 (interrupt, 0, 1) [1772885]
Nov 22 20:28:48 thunder kernel: [ 7080.291579] /build/buildd/linux-2.6.35/drivers/input/serio/i8042.c: db <- i8042 (interrupt, 0, 1) [1772886]

The first three lines is then I press F8 (there's nothing in response to pressing Fn), the following line ('99') is for depressing F8 and the last two lines is for depressing Fn.

However, I am still not sure how I make setkeycodes do anything useful with this, much less how to handle a 3-byte code reported above.

[papukaija (papukaija)]

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