[ltp] HAL and ThinkVantage

Henrique de Moraes Holschuh linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Fri, 24 Oct 2008 22:49:36 -0200


On Fri, 24 Oct 2008, Damjan wrote:
> > You have to look inside HAL, and on the path things go from HAL into the
> > X.org server, and inside the X.org server.  I can't help you there.
> 
> ok.. but I'm not trying to get things to the X server.
> HAL listens to the /dev/input/event10 device, and emits signals via D-Bus 
> (and you can see them with lshal -m or a simple python script).

Thanks for the lshal -m tip.

Indeed it is filtering the stuff out.  I don't know how HAL is supposed
to work, so I don't know exactly why it is doing that.  But that means X.org
evdev is probably not at fault, for once...

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  Henrique Holschuh