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

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2005-03-11T04:07:50Z

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On Sunday 06 March 2005 10:45, Pavel Machek wrote:
> Hi!
>
> > We need to think through the suggestion that hot keys
> > should appear to Linux like other keyboard keys -- and
> > wind their way throught the input layer. I think the important
> > thing will be what the user or administrator has to do in
> > order to map which keys to which functions; and if this
> > can work automatically without a call to 1-800-distro.
> > Hopefully we can leverage the stuff people use for keyboard
> > special keys already.
>
> 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
config file as a template (I'm using an Aspire 1705SMi, which has nothing in
common with the acerwl keyboard...).

I could only get the kernel to recognize and let me assign one of the keys
(the fast forward button, annoyingly, under my wrists as I type), which puts
the machine into S3 sleep.

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).

Ois¨ªn