On Wed, Nov 24, 2010 at 08:05:35AM +0100, Takashi Iwai wrote: > Hi, > > At Wed, 27 Oct 2010 12:39:17 +0200, > Takashi Iwai wrote: > > Some HP laptops send ACPI video events per lid open/close, and the > > ACPI video driver translates to SWITCHVIDEOMODE input key events. > > This behavior confuses the user-space daemon such as > > gnome-settings-daemon since it changes the video mode per this key, > > which results in a different video mode at each time you open/close > > the laptop lid. Fn-Fx keys are handled differently on such hardware, > > thus this key generation is simply superfluous. > > > > This patch adds a module parameter "video_switch_key" to either > > assign a different key code for this ACPI event or disable by setting > > zero there. > > > > Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@xxxxxxx> > > Any comments on this patch? I'm not entirely clear on why this is wanted. Lid state changes seem to be a reasonable proxy for "Reprobe outputs" - what's userspace actually doing that causes problems? -- Matthew Garrett | mjg59@xxxxxxxxxxxxx -- 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
