Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 11 Dec 2005 23:40:59 +0100 | From | Vojtech Pavlik <> | Subject | Re: [git pull 02/14] Add Wistron driver |
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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).
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