[ltp] T61: no power button key event when using evdev driver / HAL for keyboard configuration

[Marius Gedminas]

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On Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 08:44:07AM +0200, Marius Gedminas wrote:
> > Seems to confirm this assumption. Is there already a respective bug=20
> > report for HAL or xorg that I can use to track that issue?
>=20
> I don't know of any, and a quick search in http://bugs.freedesktop.org/
> found nothing.  I don't think I understand this issue enough to file
> one.  Are "button" devices supposed to be treated as keyboards by X.org?

To clarify, on my laptop the power button is not listed among X.org's
known input devices (xinput list), but when I press the power button, a
logout dialog shows up on my GNOME desktop.

I never wondered how that's implemented.  Perhaps an ACPI event?

Marius Gedminas
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