Re: sonypi kernel driver -- volunteers needed

Quoting Christian T. Steigies ([email protected]):
> On Wed, Jun 25, 2003 at 10:50:09PM +0000, Daniel K. wrote:
> > 
> > The genreal idea is that the events will be generated when you do 
> > 'something' with your laptop. e.g. inserting or removing a memorystick 
> > will generate an event.
> 
> Thats what I thought. I don't have a memory stick handy (I think I could
> borrow one if thats important).
>  
> > If you have a Picturebook, you may generate a 'capture' event by 
> > pressing any of the camera keys. Different laptops heve different keys, 
> > some have 'thumbphrase' keys, 'zoom' keys, 'help' keys or special 
> > 'programmable keys'.
> > These are the ones that will induce the events I am interested in.
> > Maybe *your* laptop even have other special keys that will generate a 
> > different set of events, this is what I am after.
> 
> I pressed all the buttons I found, the GR100K only has a Jogdial plus an
> extra back button (the jogdial works great, the button doesn't do anything
> in Linux yet). Nothing in the syslog, even when I used the Fn+functions keys
> (volume, brightness, LCD, TV). Closing the lid didn't generate an event
> either. I got this laptop used, so I don't know if there are any other
> special keys, but I don't think so.

I think you'll find that closing the lid generates an ACPI event, at
least it does with my R600MX.

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