Bug#381952: please autodetect Dell Latitude keyboards

2006-08-08 Thread Steinar H. Gunderson
tags 381952 + patch thanks On Tue, Aug 08, 2006 at 01:19:32AM +0200, Steinar H. Gunderson wrote: Autodetecting a Latitude is not difficult, but rather hairy -- it's basically a matter of dmidecode --string system-product-name | grep -q '^Latitude ' LATITUDE=yes I've written up a quick

Bug#381952: please autodetect Dell Latitude keyboards

2006-08-08 Thread Christian Perrier
+Dell*) + case $name in + Latitude*) +MODEL=latitude +;; + esac + ;; Well, on my Dell X1, the following *breaks* the support for volume control keys: Section InputDevice Identifier Generic Keyboard Driver keyboard

Bug#381952: please autodetect Dell Latitude keyboards

2006-08-08 Thread Steinar H. Gunderson
On Tue, Aug 08, 2006 at 07:31:24AM -0500, Christian Perrier wrote: Well, on my Dell X1, the following *breaks* the support for volume control keys: This is precisely the kind of data we need to pull in. Two valuable points: 1. I missed the inspiron keymap altogether, probably since it didn't

Bug#381952: please autodetect Dell Latitude keyboards

2006-08-08 Thread Steinar H. Gunderson
On Tue, Aug 08, 2006 at 02:43:51PM +0200, Steinar H. Gunderson wrote: 2. There should be an exception for X1. Do you have the dmidecode data handy? On second thought (as discussed on IRC), you're probably running into #381882 here, so no exception should be needed (just a bugfix). /*

Bug#381952: please autodetect Dell Latitude keyboards

2006-08-07 Thread Steinar H. Gunderson
Package: xserver-xorg Version: 1:7.0.22 Severity: wishlist Dell Latitudes have a specific XKB model (latitude) which is useful for detecting certain extra keys, such as the volume keys. However, this is not autodetected by the xserver-xorg configuration script, so the user has to enable that