[ltp] T61: no power button key event when using evdev driver / HAL for keyboard configuration
Damjan
linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Tue, 6 Jan 2009 01:40:01 +0100
> > > Seems to confirm this assumption. Is there already a respective bug
> > > report for HAL or xorg that I can use to track that issue?
> >
> > 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?
lshal -m (I guess an ACPI event routet through HAL to userspace)
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