[ltp] Lenovo SL500 (NRJF2RT). Driver reports different keycodes

[Alexandre Rostovtsev]

On Mon, Dec 7, 2009 at 1:45 AM, Alexander Bruy <alexander.bruy@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi list,
>
> I know that Lenovo ThinkPad SL series is not real ThinkPad, this laptops
> is something middle between ThinkPad and IdeaPad. But by name this is
> ThinkPad and I think this list is right place for my question. If I'm wrong -
> please sorry.
>
> One month ago I buy an Lenovo SL500 laptop (model NRJF2RT) and install
> on it Slackware 12.2 with all available updates including kernel 2.6.27.31.
> I'm not a Linux guru, so I do some googling for information and find many
> interesting info and experimantal driver by the Alexandre Rostovtsev
> (http://github.com/tetromino/lenovo-sl-laptop).
>
> But I notice that driver not works for me as written in documentation which I
> found here http://markmail.org/message/57jz3dzo2y67vcpb
> Additional keys have different keycodes (e.g. Lenovo Care - in docs have
> KEY_VENDOR (360) but on my laptop there is no reaction in xev).
>
> Can anyone help me with this? If nesessary I can provide any additional info
> and/or do test in my laptop.
>
> Sorry for my bad English, I'm Ukrainian and don't know English well.
>
> Regards,
> Alexander
>
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Hello Alexander

Keycodes with values > 255 are ignored by X. I know that this is an
inconvenience for users of the module, and I intend to find a proper
solution for it in the future.

-Alexandre Rostovtsev.