On 10/16/07, Matthew Garrett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Oct 16, 2007 at 01:48:54PM -0700, Kok, Auke wrote: > > > real life example: hook up one of those fancy usb keyboards with volume > > buttons to > > your thinkpad. The volume keys on the thinkpad do adjust the volume, the > > ones on > > the USB keyboard do not - software needs to be able to distinguish between > > them, > > and sane defaults for these events need to not overlap. > > That's not a problem - they'll be coming from different input devices. >
You could connect an external PS/2 keyboard and map some keys to control the volume/brightness there. It most likely will be the same device from the kerenl POV. More important - is brightness and volume are the only notifications userspace is interested in? Aren't there other events that might be interesting to userspace? -- Dmitry - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
