[PATCH] command line options for hald-addon-acpi

Richard Hughes hughsient at gmail.com
Tue Aug 2 11:17:26 PDT 2005


On Tue, 2005-08-02 at 20:13 +0200, Timo Hoenig wrote:
> There are drivers (IBM ACPI, Panasonic ACPI, Sony ACPI just to name a
> few) generating ACPI events which are not handled by HAL and thus get
> lost if HAL claims /proc/acpi/event.  

Okay.. You got anymore details? A URL perhaps?

> Yes, there is a generic hotkey
> driver on its way to make the specific drivers obsolete but it does not
> yet provide the wide range of functionality the specific ones do.

Yes, I've been looking at this today, after a rawhide kernel removed
my /proc/acpi/buttons... Looks promising, if a little over-engineered.

Thanks,

Richard

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