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Working with laptops or notebooks, some of the keys and buttons seem handles as "keyboard" while others are handled as "special". Nowhere do I find one place where all of these funnel through before events get created or X11 gets told about press and release.

QUESTION:  How do I track down all of this keyboard and button config information on an existing installation?

ANALYSIS:
The hardware must interact with one or more drivers of some sort. Some keys/buttons are "keyboard" while others are "special" [NOTE -- I call them special, but the community must have a name. Examples include "blue keys"
accessed with a special Fn shift and separated volume, mute, DVD eject and similar buttons. Other special "buttons" include laptop-open and laptop-closed, key-locked and key-unlocked, bay-docked and bay-undocked mechanical items.] 

I'm trying to make my way around HAL, ACPI, UDEV, UPSTART, and every other config I can find. Follow, and tangled up with these somewhere each has a handoff to X11 somewhere and somehow.

I understand that much of this is rapidly evolving from Hardy on -- especially where input devices (pointers, keyboards, etc) and displays interact with X11. More parts connect, provoke HAL and UDEV events, load kernel module drivers, ... , and X11 finds out about them eventually.

Somewhere there must be a road map to how to find out what is going on with the laptop in front of me. I'd settle for a couple of yellow bricks at the start of the road.

~~~ Dan 0;-D



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