Garrett D'Amore wrote: > Casper.Dik at Sun.COM wrote: >>> A similar mechanism was provided using hal/libhal on Linux, and there >>> was quite >>> a bit of traffic on the hal aliases at freedesktop.org to create >>> patches for >>> such keys from people who had unsupported laptops. >>> >> >> In many cases, the keys are just "keyboard keys" and they should be >> handled through the keyboard driver. >> >> In other cases, they are all "ACPI" events. >> >> I would like those to be presented as keyboard keys; and then you can >> easily use GNOME something or other to bind an event to the key press. >> (It's not entirely clear to me why you can't bind one event to >> multiple keys) >> >> Casper >> >> > > I had suggested a similar approach (using keyboard keys) -- actually my > original suggestion went a step further, and suggested that this module > could emulate a USB keyboard and generate USB boot-protocol HID keyboard > events. > > However, the problem, as I understand it, is that as rich as the USB > spec is, there are still some keys that lack standard keyboard defines > in the USB spec -- e.g. the WLAN toggle key, and LCD backlight control > keys. > > I think the current plan has the X server generate key events (X11 > events) so that tools like gnome can operate on them the same way as > ordinary keys. While not as elegant as a lower level emulation would > be, I think it is reasonable.
Garrett, thanks for the reply. :-) Regards, Kerry
