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[Norbert Preining <preining@xxxxxxxx>]

Hi Knuth, hi all,

On Fr, 17 Sep 2010, K. Posern wrote:
> Why don't I get an acpid event for Fn+F5 (event:0x10), but only for  
> Fn+F6 (event:0x11)?

No idea.

> /usr/src/linux/drivers/acpi/bus.c gets called... but seemingly my acpid  
> never receives any "sony/hotkey" events. Why could this be?

No idea, here on my laptop I *do* get acpi events for both Fn5 and Fn6.

Can you try the attached sony-laptop.c which is in my devel branch?

> Ok... I didn't look in the header file... One does need the:
> 	Deprecated /proc/acpi/event support
> 	CONFIG_ACPI_PROC_EVENT

Ok, didn't realize that this is deprecated.

> But as I stated before: The FNF6 does get passed along without this  
> kernel option using the input layer ... I am now looking into this  

I guess it has to do with the ACPI rubbish Sony is doing by
permanently changing from one model to the next.

> So why does the input_event call for FN+F6 (471) gets processes, but not  
> for FN+F5 (470)?
>
> If you can: Please just a little hint .... and Thanks!!

Sorry ... no idea as it works here ... hard to reproduce.

Best wishes

Norbert
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