Re: 2.6.25-rc2 Regression Thinkpad acpi

From: Jens Axboe
Date: Thu Mar 13 2008 - 08:46:46 EST


On Thu, Mar 13 2008, Lukas Hejtmanek wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 13, 2008 at 01:05:14PM +0100, Jens Axboe wrote:
> > And lets now get back to reality - the reality that now breaks the
> > previously working setup of lots of users. So you are telling me that in
> > order to get my volume key functionality back I have to get rid of HAL
> > and X?
> >
> > Lets turn back time a bit. Why was this change made? IOW, what was the
> > reason for breaking a working setup for lots of users? It better be a
> > damn good reason, or I would heavily argue for reverting this change so
> > that 2.6.25 actually WORKS as expected for thinkpad users.
>
> so, you are telling that xev does not show keycodes of volume buttons
> for you, right? Because for me, it works. Thinkvantage does not work.

They do not generate any events, xev reports nothing. The ThinkVantage
button doesn't generate any events either.

--
Jens Axboe

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