On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 1:11 PM, Fons Adriaensen <fons@kokkinizita.net> wrote:
On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 12:25:51PM -0800, epinull wrote:
On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 10:43 AM, kludge <drkludge@rat-patrol.org> wrote:
Well, since I don't have /etc/acpi at all it looks like this switch works without any soft support at all. So I guess it just can't be disabled.
unless you install acpid and acpi-eeepc-generic. acpid puts acpi event-handling in userspace, so then you can /dev/null fn+f2. acpi-eeepc-generic provides all the expected functionality and very straight-forward bash-script configuration for acpid.
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-kludge
AFAIK, that won't work because the wifi hotkey is handled by the eee-laptop kernel module. Or, at least it is on my 1005HA. I don't believe there is a way to stop the module from processing certain hotkeys, other than removing it altogether.
What would be the consequences of removing that module ?
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-- FA
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You'd lose quite a bit of functionality: Fan control; FSB scaling; camera, card reader, wifi and bluetooth toggling; maybe more. You'd also lose the rest of the hotkeys. Really, I wasn't recommending you remove it. I was just pointing out that kludge's suggestion wouldn't work in your situation.