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["Justin Dugger" <jldugger@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 1:29 AM, Andrew Stromme
<andrew.stromme@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> The tablet conversion event is very possibly unique to each laptop. I also
> am willing to bet that it's expressed as a keypress. At least on my laptop
> (R15) the hinge is the thing that 'detects' the rotation, and so it makes
> more sense to send the event through the keyboard.
>
> This should make it fairly easy to detect, maybe through xev? Otherwise, you
> might be able to watch the raw data flow from the keyboard input.
>

Interesting theory, but I think it's more likely a combination.  ACPI
has a LID event, and my Toshiba only seems to emit them when the lid
is closed normally.  Converting to tablet doesn't trigger a LID event,
however it does seem to trigger a lid opened event.  To do that
requires knowing which way the tablet is oriented.

Justin Dugger