[Bug 17569] atkbd.c: Unknown key pressed (translated set 2, code 0xaa on isa0060/serio0).

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------- Additional Comments From lourens at rainbowdesert.net  2005-10-31 13:44 UTC -------
I too am seeing messages like

Oct 31 13:17:17 localhost kernel: [5220634.855000] atkbd.c: Unknown key pressed
(translated set 2, code 0xaa on isa0060/serio0).
Oct 31 13:17:17 localhost kernel: [5220634.855000] atkbd.c: Use 'setkeycodes
e02a <keycode>' to make it known.

when pressing shift in combination with cursor navigation keys.

I had a look through the hotkey-setup script and dug around a little. It seems
that the script checks the BIOS to get the manufacturer of the machine at hand,
and loads settings depending on which hardware it finds. So far so good. This
machine is a not a laptop, and the BIOS manufacturer string is "American
Megatrends Inc.". The script doesn't recognise this, and so loads
/usr/share/hotkey-setup/generic.hk, which contains the following:

# Disable keys that may generate a hibernate event
setkeycodes 5d 256
setkeycodes e02a 256
setkeycodes e06f 256

And look at that, there we have our mysterious "e02a".

The question is, should this key remain disabled because it really can cause
hibernation (on my desktop machine? I'm not even sure it can do that), should it
be enabled, or should it be disabled in some other way that doesn't cause syslog
spam.

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