hald-addon-acpi-buttons-toshiba

Michal Čihař michal at cihar.com
Thu Apr 3 00:35:12 PDT 2008


Hi

On Wed, 02 Apr 2008 23:25:48 -0700
Phi Tran <Phi.Tran at Sun.COM> wrote:

> I'm using Ubuntu 7.10 on a Toshiba M9 and noticed that
> hald-addon-acpi-buttons-toshiba isn't needed.  ACPI hotkey events seem
> to be generated by the input driver and read by hald-addon-keyboard.  Is
> there new logic in the input driver to handle this now instead of a
> hotkey driver?  I just started looking and couldn't tell.

AFAIK Ubuntu has patched Toshiba ACPI module, which sends keys as ACPI
events so the HAL addon is not needed in their kernel. I guess that
generic HAL keyboard configuration[1] will apply.

[1]:http://people.freedesktop.org/~hughsient/quirk/quirk-keymap-index.html

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