Re: Re: [patch 1/1] thinkpad fn+fx key driver

[Pavel Machek <pavel-AlSwsSmVLrQ@public.gmane.org>]

Hi!

> > > > There are several ways to make both the keyboard and ACPI keys work as
> > > > intended:
> <snip>
> > > > 4) Change ACPI to use the Input API and have a daemon that handles
> > > >    all extra keys, including sound volume and application keys, possibly
> > > >    using D-bus to send the events to the desktop environment.
> > > 
> > > I like this one.
> > > 
> 
> I like this one, too. But we can modify only hotkey drivers to
> suport it.

I do not understand. Are there keys that can not be fit into input api? 

> > > Having vol+/vol- keys would be  very welcome. This daemon would
> > > have to understand scancodes for a lot of
> > > different keyboards, but perhaps
> > > that is easy enough to create incrementally.
> > 
> > The Volume+ and Volume- keys are actually pretty standardized and the
> > kernel recognizes them out of the box on 95% of machines.
> 
> My new panasonic acpi hotkey driver suports Input API.
> If you hit hotkey, then you can get both acpi event and hotkey event.
> 
> Acpid scirpt handle event like hibernation, video sw.
> hotkey utility eg) hotkeys handles vol+/-, mute, etc.
> 
> you can get driver and hotkeys confguration from http://www.da-cha.org/letsnote/

Where do I get "hotkeys"?
									Pavel
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