[ltp] x41 volume, mute buttons, and acpi

Jan Kundrát linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Thu, 28 Jun 2007 20:25:33 +0200


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Paul Fox wrote:
> the monitor switching key is a
> case in point:  as i recall, the bios wants to just flip between
> the (internal and external) displays.  the X server wants to turn
> on one, then the other, then both.  so there's a relatively
> complicated state machine which makes this happen, by
> second-guessing what the bios has done, and undoing it.  (at
> least as i recall.)

At least on my laptop (T60) with my configuration [1], BIOS doesn't
handle the Fn+F7 key combination. I have a script hooked to acpid that
handles this via ATI's proprietary fglrx thingy.

[1] http://dev.gentoo.org/~jkt/thinkpad-t60/

Cheers,
-jkt

--=20
cd /local/pub && more beer > /dev/mouth


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