I demand that Luca Niccoli may or may not have written... > On 22 April 2010 18:35, Darren Salt <[email protected]> > wrote: >> It's what needed to be done at the time to get these working. IIRC, it >> depended on whether you were installing a squeeze or sid kernel or >> building your own.
>>> Are there models that generate only button events? >> Not of which I'm aware. (I get both, even for buttons 3 and 4.) ... hmm, odd. I don't seem to be getting them at present. I'm sure that I saw them... >> Anyway, any removal of handling of hotkey events is, I think, best not >> done before squeeze is released (consider those who want to use >> lenny+backports), though I see no reason not to do this on a branch now. > The idea was, on the contrary, to remove handling of button events, since > these are not always present and will disappear after squeeze. Hmm? > It could be (I'm not sure) that the kernel in lenny does not generate > hotkey events, only button ones. The button events (well, I say "button"; I include "video/brightnessup" etc. in that too) are more recent. It seems likely that why buttons 3 and 4 didn't cause button events is that the code which adds them was written for an EeePC with only two 'soft' buttons. > But does that old kernel really support EeePCs? I think most wireless cards > and some network ones aren't supported anyway, so lenny users would use a > backported kernel as well. Quite likely... [snip] -- | Darren Salt | linux at youmustbejoking | nr. Ashington, | Toon | using Debian GNU/Linux | or ds ,demon,co,uk | Northumberland | Army | + http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEeePC/ Those who can, do. Those who can't, simulate. _______________________________________________ Debian-eeepc-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/debian-eeepc-devel
