[POSSIBLE SPAM] Re: [ltp] HOWTO - acpid and ibm-acpi on a T42p

[morpheus]

On Wed, 2004-12-22 at 17:26 +0100, Lenz Grimmer wrote:
> > Yes, you are right...the ibm_acpi README is a bit vague on this, but if
> > you want access to specific hotkeys, you can do:
> > echo enable > /proc/acpi/ibm/hotkey
> > echo 0xffff > /proc/acpi/ibm/hotkey
> > after modprobe ibm_acpi
> > 
> > (where ffff is a bitmask for the keys as described in the README)
> 
> I think it's simpler to put it in modprobe.conf, so it's automatically 
> enabled once the module is loaded:
> 
>   options ibm_acpi experimental=1 hotkey=enable,0xffff
> 
> I placed this into /etc/modprobe.conf.local on my SUSE 9.2 system.
True, that's probably better than putting it in /etc/rc.d/rc.local as I
do.