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+Dell Laptop Buttons Plug-in for KMilo
+
+Barry O'Donovan mail@barryodonovan.com, November 2004
+http://www.barryodonovan.com/
+
+KMilo is a service for kded, the KDE daemon. KMilo is new to KDE 3.2.
+It allows plug-ins which interact with the special buttons found on
+some keyboards and laptops.
+
+This plug-in reads the /proc/i8k file that is created by the i8k kernel
+module. If this file does not exist then the plug-in will not load.
+
+The code in this module is heavily based on:
+ - the Asus Laptop plug-in for KMilo by Chris Howells (howells@kde.org)
+ - the Thinkpad plug-in by Jonathan Riddell (jr@jriddell.org)
+
+Also, for the Dell specific implementations, code was taken from the
+i8kutils package of Massimo Dal Zotto <dz@debian.org> which can be
+downloaded from http://www.debian.org/~dz/i8k/
+
+LICENSE:
+
+ delli8k - KMilo plug-in for special volume keys of Dell laptops
+ Copyright (C) 2004 Barry O'Donovan <barry.odonovan@kdemail.net>
+
+ This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
+ it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
+ the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
+ (at your option) any later version.
+
+ This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+ but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+ MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
+ GNU General Public License for more details.
+
+ You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+ along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
+ Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA
+
+
+COMPATIBILITY:
+
+This plug-in should work on any Linux distribution that has the i8k module
+loaded or compiled into the kernel. Compatibility is really dependant on
+the i8kutils package of Massimo Dal Zotto <dz@debian.org> which can be
+downloaded from http://www.debian.org/~dz/i8k/. Currently (20041122), this
+should support:
+
+ Inspiron 1100 (BIOS A06), one fan, no buttons
+ Inspiron 2650 (BIOS A05)
+ Inspiron 3700 (BIOS A15), no fan speed
+ Inspiron 3800 (BIOS A14), no fan speed
+ Inspiron 4000 (BIOS A10), no fan speed
+ Inspiron 4100
+ Inspiron 4150
+ Inspiron 5100 (BIOS A06), one fan, no buttons
+ Inspiron 5150 (BIOS A24), one fan, no buttons
+ Inspiron 8000 (BIOS A17)
+ Inspiron 8100 (BIOS A04)
+ Inspiron 8200 (BIOS A06)
+ Latitude C400 (BIOS A01)
+ Latitude C510 (BIOS A07)
+ Latitude C600 (BIOS A17)
+ Latitude C610
+ Latitude C800 (BIOS A17)
+ Latitude C810 (BIOS A12)
+ Latitude C840 (BIOS A10)
+ Latitude CPiA (BIOS A14), no fan speed
+ Latitude CPx J750GT (BIOS A13), no fan speed
+ Latitude D600 (BIOS A05)
+ Latitude D800 (BIOS A00)
+ Latitude X200 (BIOS A07)
+
+That driver seems *NOT WORKING* on the following models:
+
+ Inspiron 2500 (BIOS A10)
+ Inspiron 3200
+ Inspiron 3500
+ Inspiron 5000e (BIOS A06)
+ Inspiron 5150 (BIOS A23)
+ Inspiron 7000
+ Inspiron 7500
+ Latitude CPx H450GT
+ Latitude LS H500ST
+
+HISTORY:
+
+22 November 2004 - Initial release
+
+TODO:
+
+KCM Module
+ - set volume step size
+ - set dcop mixer device
+ - allow use of special keys
+ (this may require the user to set up key codes under X)
+
+