[ltp] CALL FOR TESTING: thinkpad-acpi BETA release 0.14-20070708

[Frédéric BOITEUX]

Le dim 08 jui 2007 01:07:24 CEST, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
<hmh@hmh.eng.br> a écrit :

> I have released test version 0.14-20070708 of thinkpad-acpi through the
> sourceforge.net release system.
> 
> For now, it is only available as a patch against 2.6.21.6, but if someone
> needs if for 2.6.20.15, please drop me a note.  You can find it at:
> 
> http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=117042&package_id=
=230205
> 
> This release is being done to try to fix the Lenovo ThinkPads backlight
> brightness control and hot key issues for 2.6.23.  However, this means I
> need *testers*.  If we don't test it enough, support for those thinkpads
> may remain broken in 2.6.23.
...

	Hello,

  I've tested it on my old IBM Thinkpad X31, with a 2.6.22rc7 kernel,
and it works for sound and brightness in console and in X (with tpb).

I activated use of input events instead of ACPI ones, and I can see
them using input-events for Fn-F* keys only, not for sound, brightness,
thinklight, zoom nor "Access IBM" keys...

For these  Fn-F* keys, the reported events are not always correct :

F3:
13:44:24.835219: EV_KEY (null) pressed
13:44:24.835225: EV_SYN code=0 value=0
13:44:24.835228: EV_KEY (null) released
13:44:24.835230: EV_SYN code=0 value=0

F4:
13:44:25.512550: EV_KEY KEY_SLEEP pressed
13:44:25.512556: EV_SYN code=0 value=0
13:44:25.512559: EV_KEY KEY_SLEEP released
13:44:25.512561: EV_SYN code=0 value=0

F5:
13:44:50.444926: EV_KEY (null) pressed
13:44:50.444932: EV_SYN code=0 value=0
13:44:50.444935: EV_KEY (null) released
13:44:50.444937: EV_SYN code=0 value=0

F7:
13:45:00.086242: EV_KEY (null) pressed
13:45:00.086248: EV_SYN code=0 value=0
13:45:00.086251: EV_KEY (null) released
13:45:00.086253: EV_SYN code=0 value=0

F12:
13:45:01.414320: EV_KEY KEY_SUSPEND pressed
13:45:01.414326: EV_SYN code=0 value=0
13:45:01.414329: EV_KEY KEY_SUSPEND released
13:45:01.414331: EV_SYN code=0 value=0

And nothing else happens anymore when using them, whereas they were
working in previous versions...

I wonder how can I correctly re-program the (null) codes given by some
keys, and how the desktop should react to these keys (I'm using a
Debian Etch with Gnome system)...

	with regards,
		Fred.