On Wed, 02 Jan 2008, Ben Liblit wrote: > ThinkPads have an extra blue key that has been labeled ThinkPad, Access > IBM, or ThinkVantage over the years: > <http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/ThinkPad_Button>. On my ThinkPad X61, > this key does not generate any useful behavior by default, and does not > even generate X KeyPress events that I might bind as a shortcut of my > choosing. xev reports nothing whatsoever when I press this key. Actually, since you *are* using the latest thinkpad-acpi, it *does* generate events by default. And it enables by default all hotkeys you should be messing with, as well :-p You will get both ACPI events (deprecated), and also the KEY_VENDOR EV_KEY event on the input event device created by thinkpad-acpi. I think you just need to tell X.org to add the thinkpad-acpi event device as a keyboard, and things should work. I have this in my xorg.conf: Section "InputDevice" Identifier "ThinkPad hot keys" Driver "evdev" Option "SendCoreEvents" "true" Option "Name" "ThinkPad Extra Buttons" EndSection And, provided that your evdev driver is NOT BUGGY, it will work. > I asked about this on the HAL mailing list, and Danny Kukawka expressed > the opinion that this is something thinkpad_acpi should handle on its > own, without help from hald: It does handle it on its own, without help from HAL. But you need to configure X.org to use it. Please add that information to thinkwiki :) -- "One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot Henrique Holschuh ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2005. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ ibm-acpi-devel mailing list ibm-acpi-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ibm-acpi-devel
