HAL, and laptop Fn and hardware keys

[Timo Hoenig]

Hi,

On Wed, 2005-09-21 at 10:34 +0100, Richard Hughes wrote:

> Sure, on toshiba the only button that is tied to h/w for me is Fn-F5,

This does _not_ apply to all Toshiba laptops.  Depending on the graphic
chip Fn-F5 does not switch anything (it's supposed to switch
LCD/VGA/TV).

But Fn-F5 _always_ reports an hotkey event which can be used to trigger
an user-space application doing the proposed action.

> which we can blacklist.

With the above statement its pretty obvious why blacklisting is bad idea
in this specific case.  Expect to run into a lot of those vendor and
model specific issues.

See you,

   Timo