Hello. I recently bought a cute little Eee PC and of course I decided to run Linux on it. But some special buttons/keys doesn't work, like the "special FN key + F3" which disables touchpad. I did some research and if I understand it correctly, pressing those buttons generate "ACPI events" which could (until it was recently deprecated) be read from "/proc/acpi/events". So now to my question, how do I catch those events? Is it possible to read them from user-mode (like to have a nice graph showing if touchpad/wifi is online or offline)? I've not been digging around in the kernel before so I don't have yet much understanding how things work, but one has to start somewhere and a simple task like "is button pressed?" seems like the right thing. :) Thank you. PS. Apologies if this is the wrong list for questions like this. -- andreas pålsson -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-acpi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
