[Debian-eeepc-devel] Some function keys not working on asus eee 1215T

Cristian Rigamonti cri at linux.it
Thu Sep 22 09:01:05 UTC 2011


On Tue, Sep 20, 2011 at 05:43:45PM -0300, Ben Armstrong wrote:
> 
> The general solution *is* the window manager solution. Window managers
> and desktop environments should have default mappings for standard keys.
> Drivers should fire standard key events. ACPI scripts should not get in
> the middle unless they absolutely have to (and I would say what they
> should do in that case is map the ACPI event to fire a key with
> acpi_fakekey and *then* let the WM/DE handle it).
...

Ok, thank you for your detailed explanation; I eventually found out how to
configure my windowmanager to map the keys.

> Right. You'll find in git this reads:
> 
> [ -d /sys/devices/platform/eeepc ] || [ -d
> /sys/devices/platform/eeepc-wmi ] || exit 0
> 
> i.e. it continue on so long as either eeepc-laptop or eeepc-wmi is
> loaded. we haven't fully finished support for eeepc-wmi.

...

OK, I was assuming that the package in testing/sid was rather up-to-date; good
that you already fixed those.

Thanks again!

Cri

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