Re: generic ACPI video and hotkey drivers vs. platform-specific drivers

Stefan Seyfried
2005-03-11T17:43:46Z

On Fri, Mar 11, 2005 at 04:07:50AM +0000, Oisín Mac Fhearaí wrote:
> On Sunday 06 March 2005 10:45, Pavel Machek wrote:

> > There's utility for X called "hotkeys"; it has hw-specific config files,
> > but on linux it should be possible to have one generic config file. X are
> > usefull for displaying overlays telling you current volume setting, etc.
> > Pavel
>
> I don't think so - I use hotkeys and I had to mess around with get/setkeycodes
> etc and basically mess around for quite a while with some Acer keyboard

What pavel wanted to say (IIUC) was, that there are already enough tools
for grabbing "generic" keys (AKA your keyboard) from the input system
and reacting on them, so routing ACPI hotkeys through the input layer
seems a good thing to do. I tend to agree.

> So... it's a handy utility, but I can't see a "generic" solution (from my
> uneducated accidental wrist-putting-machine-to-sleep hassle point of view).

maybe because your acer does not generate "normal" keystrokes for those
buttons but ACPI events? So you would benefit from these solution, too.
--
Stefan Seyfried