[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#475851: hal: Brightness keys for Samsung Q45 laptop

[Sam Morris]

Package: hal
Version: 0.5.11~rc2-1
Severity: normal

Pressing the brigness up/down keys on my laptop causes the following
kernel messages to be logged:

atkbd.c: Unknown key pressed (translated set 2, code 0x88 on isa0060/serio0).
atkbd.c: Use 'setkeycodes e008 <keycode>' to make it known.

atkbd.c: Unknown key pressed (translated set 2, code 0x89 on isa0060/serio0).
atkbd.c: Use 'setkeycodes e009 <keycode>' to make it known.

If I run 'setkeycodes e008 225' and 'setkeycodes e009 224' then HAL
appears to pick up the keypresses (as can be seen by running 'lshal -m'.
Although it doesn't actually change the brightness of the screen, I
guess that is a separate problem?

BTW, I kind-of guessed which package I should file the bug against. I
still find the whole hal/acpi-support/laptop-detect situation rather
confusing. :) Please reassign if you know better.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (530, 'testing'), (520, 'unstable'), (510, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.24-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages hal depends on:
ii  adduser           3.107                  add and remove users and groups
ii  dbus              1.1.20-1               simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  hal-info          20080317+git20080318-1 Hardware Abstraction Layer - fdi f
ii  libc6             2.7-10                 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libdbus-1-3       1.1.20-1               simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libdbus-glib-1-2  0.74-1                 simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libexpat1         1.95.8-4               XML parsing C library - runtime li
ii  libgcc1           1:4.3.0-3              GCC support library
ii  libglib2.0-0      2.16.1-2               The GLib library of C routines
ii  libhal-storage1   0.5.11~rc2-1           Hardware Abstraction Layer - share
ii  libhal1           0.5.11~rc2-1           Hardware Abstraction Layer - share
ii  libsmbios1        0.13.13-1              Provide access to (SM)BIOS informa
ii  libstdc++6        4.3.0-3                The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii  libusb-0.1-4      2:0.1.12-9             userspace USB programming library
ii  libvolume-id0     0.114-2                libvolume_id shared library
ii  lsb-base          3.1-24                 Linux Standard Base 3.1 init scrip
ii  mount             2.13.1-3               Tools for mounting and manipulatin
ii  pciutils          1:2.2.10-1             Linux PCI Utilities
ii  pm-utils          0.99.2-3               utilities and scripts for power ma
ii  udev              0.114-2                /dev/ and hotplug management daemo
ii  usbutils          0.73-7                 Linux USB utilities

Versions of packages hal recommends:
ii  eject                         2.1.5-6    ejects CDs and operates CD-Changer
pn  libsmbios-bin                 <none>     (no description available)

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