[Debian-eeepc-devel] How to deal with the freeze?

[Ben Armstrong]

On 11/16/2010 09:16 AM, Luca Niccoli wrote:
> How about: we add a new rule file that calls a very basic wrapper
> script, that calls hotkey.sh with the appropriate codes in case
> eeepc_wmi is loaded?

That's reasonable.

> This would keep hotkey.sh simple, and would be very easy to turn off
> in case eeepc_wmi starts generating hotkeys again.
> BTW, could you try a kernel that has eeepc_wmi natively (w/o
> backporting) too? I'd like to be sure that eeepc_wmi never generates
> hotkeys before making this change...

Can you?  Do you have a model supporting WMI?  I'm at work and will be
unable to test for some hours yet (besides which, the model 1001PX is
busy with a kernel build while I work :)

If you can't, I'll deal with this later this evening.

Thanks,
Ben