On Sat, 2010-11-27 at 05:10 +0800, Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo wrote: > Hello, > > I have a notebook with an ACPI system that notifies about the pressing > of the key for blocking touchpad. However, it does not notify it by > itself. I was considering sending the event to userspace and let it does > the blocking. > how do you know the event is sent via ACPI? please try "cat /proc/interrupts > interrupt-1; grep . /sys/firmware/acpi/interrupts/* > gpe-1; sleep 5; cat /proc/interrupts > interrupt-2; grep . /sys/firmware/acpi/interrupts/* > gpe-2", and press the block key during the 5 seconds sleep. Then please attach the 4 files here to see if there are ACPI interrupts generated by the key pressing. thanks, rui > Since other keys are also notified by this same ACPI object, it's even > more natural that I use an input device to send this to userspace. > > The problem is: there seems to be no event to represent this. Any > suggestions? > > Best regards, > Cascardo. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-input" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
