Oh sweet! Thanks for the response..this explains a lot. I have opened a launchpad bug .. I think some changes are needed Thanks Henrique... here is a link to the bug: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/acpi-support/+bug/194679 On Sat, Feb 23, 2008 at 1:50 PM, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Fri, 22 Feb 2008, Jerone Young wrote: > > Changing this to: > > options thinkpad_acpi hotkey=enable,0xffffff experimental=1 > > > > fixes the issue. I will file a bug with the patch. Hopefully it will > > The correct way to load thinkpad-acpi by default is "thinkpad_acpi > experimental=1" (if you want experimental features). > > Hotkeys are enabled by default, and with a proper default mask in any > non-ancient thinkpad-acpi version. Messing with that by default is *not* > nice. > > In fact, mask 0xffffff is bad for just about *every* thinkpad, in all > current userspace configs. Ubuntu's hacked HAL avoid *some* of the problems > that 0xffffff causes, but not all of them, and not for all applications. > > And I have a patch queued for thinkpad-acpi which will bitch about anyone > setting masks 0xffff, 0xffffff and 0xfffffffff. > > -- > > > "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 2008. 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
