[ltp] ThinkV launched

[Henrique de Moraes Holschuh]

On Tue, 08 Jul 2008, Michael Gaber wrote:
>> Isn't this already handled by the desktop environment/window manager?
>> It would be better to make sure that the Xorg keyboard configuration
>> does know about all the special thinkpad keys, e.g. map volume up and
>> down buttons to XF86AudioRaiseVolume and XF86AudioLowerVolume. This
>> way, such special keys can be handled in a generic way by the desktop
>> environment/window manager and no special tools need to be created.
>
> well, at least here on my T60 and R50p these buttons are implemented in  
> hardware, so they shouldn't generate these key-events, otherwise you'd  
> have 2 volumen changes at once which is not what you want.

And that's why thinkpad-acpi doesn't issue input events for them on IBM
thinkpads by default, but people insist on breaking it (well, it is their
problem).  I don't recall what is done on the T60, it might be doing the
wrong thing...  But that also depends on the firmware version, and I only
support the latest firmware (this is negotiable, but it will not be cheap
;-) ).

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  Henrique Holschuh