On Sun, Dec 11, 2005 at 01:10:13PM +0000, Bernhard Rosenkraenzer wrote:
> On Tuesday 06 December 2005 15:21, Dmitry Torokhov wrote:
>
> Hi, sorry for the delay, just returning from Spain...
>
> > > There are acpi daemon for any evetnts that needs user space attention.
> > > I'm not sure if these events should be routed to input layer.
> >
> > How do you suggest handle buttons such as "Mail", "WWW", etc? Through
> > acpid? And then tunnel them to X somewhow?
>
> I think routing them to the input layer makes most sense because they are keys
> like everything else -- of course hacking acpid to pass on ACPI key events to
> Xorg via the XTest extension is not exactly hard, but that would break the
> keys in text mode (who knows, maybe someone wants to map his mail key to
> "mutt[RETURN]"?), and of course launching an application from acpid is a bit
> hard (acpid runs as root --> need to figure out which user is pressed the
> button, switch user IDs, find the correct X display if any, .....) if it's an
> input event, solutions for the expected functionality already exist - e.g.
> khotkeys.
You also can hack acpid to use uinput to feed the events back to the
input subsystem, but I agree with you that going there directly is
probably the best way to go.
> > > With acpi enabled - wistron module, bluetooth works.
> > > From these test cases, do you still think wistron driver can help my
> > > laptop?
> >
> > No, you have proven that the driver will not help to your laptop. Now,
> > as it is, it won't even load on your laptop either, because of
> > different DMI signature. So why are you complaining? I am pretty sure
> > Bernhard (who added bluetooth handling) has his working with ACPI.
> > Bernhard, any input on this?
>
> I have ACPI + wistron module. Can't tell if bluetooth actually works because I
> don't have any bluetooth hardware, but I can tell the bluetooth LED can be
> turned on and off.
You should see the bluetooth USB device appearing and disappearing in
'lsusb'.
> ACPI works on this box, but not the ACPI buttons stuff (guess they aren't
> following standards...). I'm running a modified 2.6.15-rc5-mm1 here (none of
> the modifications touch ACPI though).
--
Vojtech Pavlik
SuSE Labs, SuSE CR
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