From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.0) Description of problem: I'm using Fedoara Cpre 2 FINAL on my DELL Inspiron 8200 laptop and the four extra buttons play/pause, stop, prev and next don't work. I tried to bind them with the latest LinEAK (0.8.3beta) but no luck. I then checked for their keycodes with xev but they produce no kewycodes. Then I discovered after looking around the internet that one can give then keycodes through their raw codes which are e_001 to e_004. That I tried a gave them the old keycodes as they had on the 2.4 kernel (129 to 132). Checked again with xev and saw that they where shifted, i.e. they had keycodes from 132 to 134 and 140. This is very frustating, I looked for a patch but didn't find any for the new 2.6.5 kernel. It seems like this a problem since the release of the 2.6 kernel (even during the test fase). I really really that this is going to be fixed very soon. Kind Regards André Fettouhi E-mail : Andre.Fettouhi.uni-giessen.de Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): kernel-2.6.5-1.358 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. log in on a inspiron 8200 with a Fedora Core 2 Linux on 2. start xev 3. press the 4 extra buttons Actual Results: Nothing happens no keycodes or shifted (see description) Additional info:
Created attachment 106213 [details] patch to get the 4 extra buttons on an Inspiron 8200 working on kernel 2.6.5 and above This is patch for getting the 4 multimedia buttons working again on a Dell Inspiron 8200 on the 2.6 kernel. This patch should be applied on kernels from 2.6.5 and up (2.6.9). See http://linux.siprell.com/ for more information on the patch. PS. I did not write this patch I just found it and I am reporting it since it seems like it hasn't been reported yet. I have also reported it to bugzilla.kernel.org along with the bug that the 4 multimedia buttons don't work on the 2.6 kernels.
Fedora Core 2 has now reached end of life, and no further updates will be provided by Red Hat. The Fedora legacy project will be producing further kernel updates for security problems only. If this bug has not been fixed in the latest Fedora Core 2 update kernel, please try to reproduce it under Fedora Core 3, and reopen if necessary, changing the product version accordingly. Thank you.