[ltp] How to use the input interface?

Evgeni Golov linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Tue, 4 Dec 2007 19:58:54 +0100


On Tue, 4 Dec 2007 16:39:52 -0200 Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:

> Please file a bug on the source of that evdev package.  It needs an update,
> or upstream needs to fix the regression...

This is known: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=443292

> As for key_vendor, well, what is the hotkey_mask on your X31?  If you cannot
> set bit 23 of hotkey_mask, configure thinkpad-acpi with NVRAM polling
> enabled, and try again (and tell me about it.  AFAIK, X31 should support all
> keys in ACPI event mode, and not require any NVRAM polling).

I can see KEY_VENDOR while running "input-events <n>" (when not in X),
so my hotkey_mask of 0x008c7fff looks fine (don't ask why exactly THIS
value). It's just Xorg who does not get the key?