[Debian-eeepc-devel] osd

[Daniel Harris]

On Sat, Nov 10, 2012 at 1:52 PM, Daniel Harris
<mail.dharris at googlemail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 10, 2012 at 12:35 PM, Ben Armstrong
> <synrg at sanctuary.nslug.ns.ca> wrote:
>> On 10/11/12 07:33 AM, Hans-J. Ullrich wrote:
>>> This behaviour appears with or without "acpi_osi=Linux". In my case I have to
>>> use "acpi_osi=Linux", as my EEEPC 1005 HGO needs this (eeepc-wmi is not
>>> supported by my hardware, because the vendors kept the specs secret).
>>
>> Even using the kernel in Wheezy? That's what we're talking about here. I
>> was under the impression that no hardware supporting eeepc-wmi should
>> use eeepc-laptop, and therefore in wheezy, acpi_osi="Linux" should never
>> be used.
>>
>>> If you wonder, why I filed no bugreport: This is easy to explain. As I seemed
>>> to be the only user in the world with this problem, I did not want to waste
>>> your ressources in this work for a single person. :)
>>>
>>> As it looks now, other people have too, maybe a bug might be opened?
>>
>> Possibly, but in that case, I'm not sure it would ever be fixed in
>> eeepc-acpi-scripts, which should do less and less until it is finally
>> eliminated.
>>
>> One possibility that I have not investigated recently is that certain
>> hotkeys are not handled by ACPI at all anymore and should be caught by
>> the window manager itself and handled there. If that's the case here, it
>> is a small matter of configuring your key bindings (in LXDE's case, the
>> openbox key bindings) to issue the appropriate command and send a
>> message to the notification daemon.
>>
>> Ben
>
> Actually I have just realised Fn spacebar for me actually doesnt do
> anything.  Thats using eeepc_wmi

So with acpi_osi="Linux"  my Fn + spacebar actually works however
still no osd even with the hand modified
/usr/share/acpi-support/eeepc-acpi-scripts/lib/shengine.sh
modifications

Dan

Sorry guys I should of said I am not on the eeepc-devel mailing list

Tanks for all the replies and suggestions.