[patch] poll the NVRAM area to pick up Thinkpad button presses

[Bastien Nocera]

On Tue, 2007-05-15 at 18:21 +0200, Danny Kukawka wrote:
> On Dienstag, 15. Mai 2007, Richard Hughes wrote:
> > * Be patched into the kernel and use INPUT (_if_ possible, and
> > probably a long term thing)
> > * Modified to use UINPUT so we can "inject" input keycodes to X, so we
> > can map them in gnome-settings-daemon (and the equivalent KDE thing)
> 
> I maybe oversee something, but I think the patch is not needed. Simply install 
> the hotkey-setup package (as far as I can see used currently by SUSE, Debian 
> and Ubuntu) and you get all the events via the input layer. Tested with X41 
> and X60.

The point is that it doesn't require the installation of an extra
package, and that it can use HAL's matching, and system to make sure the
keys are working.

In any case, the real goal is to get the keys handled directly in the
kernel. See:
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.acpi.ibm-acpi.devel/395

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Bastien Nocera <hadess at hadess.net>