The mechanism behind keymap quirks and input handling

[Martin Pitt]

Pat Suwalski [2009-05-08 12:05 -0400]:
> Ozan Çağlayan wrote:
> > I'm really really confused about all that stuff, if anyone can provide
> > whitepapers, tutorials, faq's, about HAL and input event handling, I'd
> > be very glad.
> 
> I, too, would be very interested in some information about this.
> 
> Specifically, how something like eeepc_hotkey gets loaded, how to expand 
> on its functionality (for experimentation), and if all of this 
> essentially replaces custom keymaps for various hardware vendors.

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Hotkeys has an overview about the architecture
and troubleshooting. The acpi-support bits are Ubuntu specific (and we
got rid of most of it now), so look at the "should be" part.

Martin
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