Request for comments: Laptop improvements
Dave Jones
davej at redhat.com
Thu Jun 22 23:18:01 UTC 2006
On Fri, Jun 23, 2006 at 12:09:31AM +0100, Richard Hughes wrote:
> > Hotkeys on laptops is kinda a mess right now. Some work been done in HAL
> > CVS to emit events but I'm not sure I like that applications should
> > listen to HAL to get events a'la "pause button pressed". Ideally the
> > keyboard drivers in the kernel would be smart and listen for the weird
> > physical interfaces (some ACPI, some SMBIOS crap etc) that laptop
> > hotkeys are on and just emit keypresses using the existing input event
> > framework.
>
> Yes, kernel guys: poke.
Last time I heard about this, Matthew Garrett was working on it.
I've no idea how far he got with it though, but I wouldn't be surprised
if this is fixed, and languishing in the ubuntu kernel :)
Dave
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