Re: [gpm] Untangling the sleep hotkey mess

[Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry torokhov gmail com>]

On 1/9/06, Richard Hughes <hughsient gmail com> wrote:
>
> * All ACPI keyboard events would come through /proc/acpi/event as hkey's
> * You could change the brightness on *any* lcdpanel by doing a simple
>  #echo 3 > /proc/acpi/video/brightness
> * You could get the number of brightness levels supported doing
>  #cat /proc/acpi/video/brightness_levels
>

And what do you do if:

1. You don't have ACPI available (other platforms)
2. APM works better for some reason
3. The hotkey (sleep, power, etc) does not come from ACPI?

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Dmitry