On Mon, Feb 14, 2005 at 11:58:37AM +0100, Stelian Pop wrote: > > Stelian Pop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > Privately I've had many positive feedbacks from users of this driver > > > (and no negative feedback), including Linux distributions who wish > > > to include it into their kernels. The reports are increasing in number, > > > it would seem that newer Sony Vaios are more and more incompatible > > > with sonypi and require sony_acpi to control the screen brightness. > > > > The sonypi driver seems to be necessary to catch Vaio hotkey events, > > including the sleep button. I've checked a couple of DSDTs, and it seems > > that the more recent Vaios are lacking the SPIC entries but still don't > > have the sleep button defined. Is there any chance of this driver being > > able to catch hotkey events? > > I don't believe so. > > > Related to that, I have a nastyish hack which lets the sonypi driver > > generate ACPI events whenever a hotkey is pressed. Despite not strictly > > being ACPI events, this makes it much easier to integrate sonypi stuff > > with general ACPI support. I'll send it if you're interested. > > Wouldn't be more useful to make the ACPI hotkeys generate an > input event (like sonypi does) and integrate all this at the input > level ? Yes, I'd like to see that. The other possible way is have the input layer generate ACPI events for power-related keys.
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