[Debian-eeepc-devel] osd

[Daniel Harris]

On Sat, Nov 10, 2012 at 4:34 PM, Daniel Harris
<mail.dharris at googlemail.com> wrote:
> 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.


If I remove acpi_osi="Linux" my Fn + spacebar does nothing.

tested using      time sh -c "echo '2^2^20' | bc > /dev/null"