[ltp] Anyone got ibm-acpi scripts working on SuSE?

[Florian Dorpmueller]

>I've got a Thinkpad T42 running ibm-acpi, and I'd like to get some of
>the Fn-keys working.  SuSE (9.3) seems to have a more elaborate scheme
>than documented elsewhere; all events get sent to apcid_proxy, and then
>handed out to appropriate scripts.  I've got many of the components
>together, but I'm getting lost in the details and would love to see an
>example of a working configuration.  For instance, you're supposed to
>put the event name into POWERSAVE_EVENT_OTHER in
>/etc/sysconfig/powersave/events.  Since the FN hotkey events are
>multi-word (i.e. ibm/hotkey HKEY 00000080 00001007) it's not clear to me
>whether I need quotes in the sysconfig entry, and what to name the
>associated script.
>
>I don't see an easy way to bypass the mechanism, as the sole entry in
>/etc/acpi/events has an entry:
>
>event=.*
>action=/usr/sbin/acpid_proxy %e
>
>so if I add other scripts in there it's unclear whether this wildcard
>would handle all events before my script gets checked.
>
>Thanks for any guidance you can provide!
>

I can recommend to have a look at 
http://www.dw-itsecurity.de/content/view/50/106/
It should work for SuSE quite similar.

Florian