[Pkg-acpi-devel] Bug#521280: how to make acpid react to hotkeys now?

[gregor herrmann]

On Fri, 17 Apr 2009 01:08:43 -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:

> > In the above file the three volume-stanzas are probably useless; the
> > volume-key-events show up for me only after reinstalling
> > hotkey-setup, maybe there's another possibility, too.
> You should never mess with the volume keys on thinkpad-acpi 
[..]
> Those volume keys are NOT for commanding AC97 mixers if they're getting
> sent to thinkpad-acpi.  It is that simple.

Right, sorry for being unclear, I don't want to control the volume, I
just ...
 
> Note that I didn't say anything about volume keysyms in X.org.  

... want to get the keypresses in X, in order to be able to show 
an OSD message.

> In Lenovo
> thinkpad (except maybe the Z series) that lack the internal non-ac97
> volume control (they just have mute control), the volume keys ARE just
> hotkeys, but they do NOT go through thinkpad-acpi in the first place, they
> go directly to the keyboard driver and X will get them.

They didn't show up for me in xev output until I re-installed
hotkey-setup. I haven't found the time yet to find out what it
actually does and how this could be accomplished in other ways.
 
> > I'm using xbindkeys at the moment, but something that's independent
> > from X and a specific user would indeed be nice. Unfortunately I
> > haven't found out yet if and how HAL can call events on keypresses
> You have to get the HAL source code, look at its input helper, and WRITE
> the code to do it.  It just plain CANNOT do anything useful with input
> events right now.

Ok, then at least I haven't missed anything :)


Thanks for your detailed explanations!


Cheers,
gregor 
 
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