That is absolutely wonderful! I was digging around in drivers/acpi/* but had trouble to make sense of things, but eeepc-laptop.c seems to be right on the spot of what I was thinking of doing. :) Now I just need to figure out how to talk to it from user-mode, and I should be all set. I suppose this is not the list to ask questions related to it? Thanks! On Sun, Oct 25, 2009 at 00:17, Alexey Starikovskiy <aystarik@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi, > There is driver to handle events from eeePC hardware > drivers/platform/x86/eeepc-laptop.c > You should probably start from making sure you have this one loaded. > > Regards, > Alex. > > andreas pålsson пишет: >> >> 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
