Re: [PATCH] Map volume and brightness events on thinkpads

[Dmitry Torokhov]

On 10/16/07, Matthew Garrett <mjg59@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 16, 2007 at 01:48:54PM -0700, Kok, Auke wrote:
>
> > real life example: hook up one of those fancy usb keyboards with volume buttons to
> > your thinkpad. The volume keys on the thinkpad do adjust the volume, the ones on
> > the USB keyboard do not - software needs to be able to distinguish between them,
> > and sane defaults for these events need to not overlap.
>
> That's not a problem - they'll be coming from different input devices.
>

You could connect an external PS/2 keyboard and map some keys to
control the volume/brightness there. It most likely will be the same
device from the kerenl POV.

More important - is brightness and volume are the only notifications
userspace is interested in? Aren't there other events that might be
interesting to userspace?

-- 
Dmitry
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