3.7 Linux device driver for the Toshiba Tecra S1
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Once upon a time, when I was working at Edinfor, I was issued a Toshiba
Tecra S1 laptop, which was great, except that some of the function keys
were 'soft keys' that depended on OS support that didn't exist in the
Linux kernel (so, brightness and turning wireless on).
Fortunately, being able to access, modify, and distribute the code is
the whole point behind the GPL, so I learned by example and wrote the
driver, currently available through the Wayback Machine (1).
Quoting for the original page:
This is a kernel module that supports all of the features in the
the Toshiba Tecra laptop that I have, including LCD brightness,
bluetooth and wireless control, Fn key detection, etc.
Be aware that some of the functions will need to have the support
of a userland tool, since the Fn keys always return the same
scancode to X; what makes the difference is the value that is
captured and made available in /proc/acpi/tecra/hotkey. A userland
utility can watch the value and take actions (e.g. calling the
mixer application, locking the session, etc).
This isn't very polished yet but it is a start. I hope it will be
useful.
Special regards should be made to Thorsten Zachmann for the
smi_command that is the bulk of the complex work and to John
Belmonte in which module mine was based; also a thank you is in
order to Toshiba Linux Support who made available the technical
documentation necessary to make this module complete.
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(1) currently available through the Wayback Machine
(
https://web.archive.org/web/20160420200533/http://www.gesal.org/tecra/)
