Comment 3 for bug 955176

On Thu, Mar 15, 2012 at 12:00:49AM -0000, greg wrote:
> > But there *are* exceptions, which is why the package is still around.

> Right, but we haven't these exceptions been fixed yet?

The exceptions are the events for which neither the kernel nor the
freedesktop framework provides handling. So there's no way to "fix" these
until the upstream stack provides standard handling for touchpad and
wireless toggling keys.

> And why does acpi-support ship so much stuff that is clearly deprecated?

The handlers that are probably deprecated are mostly those for ASUS and
Toshiba hardware, which no one who works on this package has direct access
to. If you can confirm which of the other /etc/acpi/events/asus-* handlers
are already handled through the kernel input layer, I'm happy to remove
those as well.

> The problematic events are "asus-brightness-down" and "asus-brightness-
> up".

Could you please run acpi_listen and show the actual ACPI events generated
for each of these keys? This may be important later in case a different
ASUS model isn't being handled correctly in the kernel yet.

Thanks,
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