[ltp] Fn-F4 event weirdness?

[Adam Sloboda]

At Mon, 25 Feb 2008 17:02:59 +0100 (CET),
Igor V Rafienko wrote:
> 
> 
> Hi,
> 
> 
> I have noticed that when I enable the Fn-F4 hotkey:
> 
> echo "enable,0x0078" > /proc/acpi/ibm/hotkey
> 
> (this enables Fn+{F4,F5,F6,F7}), I get the ACPI events when I press
> Fn+{F5,F6,F7} as soon as I press those keys, but I only get Fn-F4
> events[1] once per 60 seconds.
> 
> Since I want to use Fn-F4 for suspending, it does not really matter
> all that much, but I was wondering where the 60 second delay is coming
> from. This is plain-vanilla thinkpad-acpi-0.19-20080107_v2.6.24 on a
> T43 (there are no gnome power managers and what not).
> 
> Where does the delay come from?
> 

I noticed too, I believe it's embedded controller.

Regards,
Adam