Re: Regression in thinkpad-acpi events

From: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
Date: Thu Nov 24 2011 - 19:25:54 EST


On Thu, 24 Nov 2011, Tom Gundersen wrote:
> It looks like my problem was something else. We don't do anything to
> synthesize the ACPI HKEY events (AFAIK), so I believe that KDE (which
> I am using) should be using the input events and that the HKEY stuff
> does not matter.

I have no idea if KDE can do it or not.

> As to the original report about the change in HKEY events, this is
> (probably) due to PROCFS_ACPI being disabled in the Arch kernel as of
> 3.1.

Well, maybe Arch needs to update its userspace to cope with its kernel...
but still, we will only really know whether this is the problem or not if
someone checks the input devices and the acpi events over netlink in that
Arch kernel.

--
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them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond
where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot
Henrique Holschuh
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