HAL, sound cards and laptops

[Matthew Garrett]

On Tue, Aug 08, 2006 at 01:21:59AM +0200, Lennart Poettering wrote:

> Sounds like a good idea. Although I would add seperate KEY_WIRELESS,
> KEY_WLAN, KEY_BLUETOOTH definitions (as some laptops have this
> seperately and others all-in-one as in
> KEY_WIRELESS=KEY_BLUETOOTH+KEY_WLAN).

Hm. Unfortunately we start running out of space quite quickly around 
then. This is probably going to have to be brought up with the input 
guys...

> And while we are at it: KEY_POWERPLUG, KEY_POWERUNPLUG would be cool
> too, because my MSI S270 passes these events as keypress events as
> well.

Your laptop is batshit insane.

> BTW: is there any project that sets scan code translation tables based
> on DMI data? A while ago I wrote a tool "keyfuzz" which something like
> this, but lacks DMI integration
> (http://0pointer.de/lennart/projects/keyfuzz/). I might work on
> expanding it adding DMI support, but only if there is no other project
> around doing just that. A quick search on google didn't yield anything
> useful.

hotkey-setup in Debian and Ubuntu. It's just a bunch of shell scripts, 
but it works nicely.

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