On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 1:11 PM, Fons Adriaensen <fons@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 12:25:51PM -0800, epinull wrote: > > On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 10:43 AM, kludge <drkludge@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > > > Well, since I don't have /etc/acpi at all it looks like this > > > > switch works without any soft support at all. So I guess it > > > > just can't be disabled. > > > > > > unless you install acpid and acpi-eeepc-generic. acpid puts acpi > > > event-handling in userspace, so then you can /dev/null fn+f2. > > > acpi-eeepc-generic provides all the expected functionality and very > > > straight-forward bash-script configuration for acpid. > > > > > > make like the sneaker adverts! > > > > > > -kludge > > > > > > > > AFAIK, that won't work because the wifi hotkey is handled by > > the eee-laptop kernel module. Or, at least it is on my 1005HA. > > I don't believe there is a way to stop the module from processing > > certain hotkeys, other than removing it altogether. > > What would be the consequences of removing that module ? > > Ciao, > > -- > FA > > O tu, che porte, correndo si ? > E guerra e morte ! You'd lose quite a bit of functionality: Fan control; FSB scaling; camera, card reader, wifi and bluetooth toggling; maybe more. You'd also lose the rest of the hotkeys. Really, I wasn't recommending you remove it. I was just pointing out that kludge's suggestion wouldn't work in your situation.
