On Fri, 17 Apr 2009 01:08:43 -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > > In the above file the three volume-stanzas are probably useless; the > > volume-key-events show up for me only after reinstalling > > hotkey-setup, maybe there's another possibility, too. > You should never mess with the volume keys on thinkpad-acpi [..] > Those volume keys are NOT for commanding AC97 mixers if they're getting > sent to thinkpad-acpi. It is that simple.
Right, sorry for being unclear, I don't want to control the volume, I just ... > Note that I didn't say anything about volume keysyms in X.org. ... want to get the keypresses in X, in order to be able to show an OSD message. > In Lenovo > thinkpad (except maybe the Z series) that lack the internal non-ac97 > volume control (they just have mute control), the volume keys ARE just > hotkeys, but they do NOT go through thinkpad-acpi in the first place, they > go directly to the keyboard driver and X will get them. They didn't show up for me in xev output until I re-installed hotkey-setup. I haven't found the time yet to find out what it actually does and how this could be accomplished in other ways. > > I'm using xbindkeys at the moment, but something that's independent > > from X and a specific user would indeed be nice. Unfortunately I > > haven't found out yet if and how HAL can call events on keypresses > You have to get the HAL source code, look at its input helper, and WRITE > the code to do it. It just plain CANNOT do anything useful with input > events right now. Ok, then at least I haven't missed anything :) Thanks for your detailed explanations! Cheers, gregor -- .''`. Home: http://info.comodo.priv.at/{,blog/} / GPG Key ID: 0x00F3CFE4 : :' : Debian GNU/Linux user, admin, & developer - http://www.debian.org/ `. `' Member of VIBE!AT, SPI Inc., fellow of FSFE | http://got.to/quote/ `- NP: Rolling Stones: Bleed-live
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