Hi, nothing shows, nothing changes.. not showkey/xev output and not any change on ACPI interrupts or /proc seems that these buttons do not exist.... any idea - what can be done ? tnx, --Y 2010/9/13 Thomas Renninger <trenn@xxxxxxx> > > On Monday 13 September 2010 20:11:55 Yedidia Klein wrote: > > ok, found that wmi is compiled into my kernel and not built as module. > > while the grep for PNP0C32 returned nothing - so I assume that it;s > > not that. > > > > is there any way to read these addresses directly via C and not via > > ACPI ? > If the button is ACPI driven you have to look at ACPI code sooner or > later. > Have you tried showkey yet? > > Try: > sleep 1;showkey > and > sleep 1;showkey -s > (the sleep is only that you can escape with CTRL-c). > If you get output if you hit the keys, then forget about ACPI and all > I said. There is a lot documentation about this out there. > Best you learn about: > /etc/X11/Xmodmap > the input layer, xev is a nice tool for these, etc. > > If you don't see something with showkey, it's likely that it's ACPI > driven. > Do: > rmmod battery > rmmod thermal > to avoid other ACPI interrupts > Then: > watch -n1 cat /proc/interrupts > Press the buttons, is the ACPI irq (normally 9) increasing when you > hit any of these? > If yes, it's likely ACPI driven. > > Next step would to find out which GPE is fired on each press: > VALID="";for x in /sys/firmware/acpi/interrupts/gpe*;do if cat $x|grep > enabled;then VALID="$VALID $x";fi;done;watch -n1 cat $VALID > > modprobe battery > modprobe thermal > afterwards... > > Thomas -- 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
