obtaining key scancode with dmesg and atkbd (Solved)

juniper · l33t Joined: 22 Oct 2004 Posts: 959 Location: we the north

i have two gentoo laptops (not identical at all). i want to enable the standby key on one of them, but i can't figure out the scancode of that key.

when i push keys on one laptop dmesg gives an atkbd line telling me the scancode but on the other laptop no such line comes out with dmesg. do i have to run a program or enable something in the kernel for dmesg. i have CONFIG_KEYBOARD_ATKBD enabled in both kernels.

juniper · l33t Joined: 22 Oct 2004 Posts: 959 Location: we the north

BUMP.

I really don't get it. why is atkbd not outputting anything on dmesg? really really weird. what does atkbd depend on?

amasidlover · Posted: Tue Jun 06, 2006 9:14 am Post subject:

You might want to check and see if it is detected as an ACPI button rather than a keyboard button. If you are already running ACPI/acpid then you should be able to check using acpi_listen (the command line tool).

Regards,

Alex

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juniper · l33t Joined: 22 Oct 2004 Posts: 959 Location: we the north