userspace button controls

[Bastien Nocera]

Woop,

So after a session of IRC, and some nasty clock problems, Joseph and I
(especially Joseph in fact ;) managed to get this working alright on an
iBook2. I attach a newer working version of keyevd that Joseph fixed
after my previous post, and to which I added eject (uses the eject
utility somewhere in your PATH).

buttons2.patch installs on top of Jospeh's buttons.patch
keyevd2.c: compiles with:
gcc -I/usr/src/linux/include/ -o keyevd2 `glib-config --cflags`
`glib-config --libs` -lpopt keyevd2.c

keyevd2.c is still a abominable hack, it needs some major cleaning up

Have fun

Joseph P. Garcia wrote:

>Greetings.
>
>On Sun, 29 Jul 2001 04:48:14 +0100
>Bastien Nocera <hadess at hadess.net> wrote:
>
>>Well, the buttons_patch doesn't work on the ibook2:
>>
>[...]
>
>>eject: Unhandled button code 0b
>>
>
>Perfect!  This is what I was looking for.  Attached is a patch to make things work... maybe.  I don't know what to expect with the power key.  The eject key on the iBook2 is apparantly still an adb-button... neato.. i think.
>
>You will probably get an 'unknown scancode' for the eject key, but you can get the idea how to fix that from the patch.  change the cooresponding 0 to a KEY_EJECTCD, recompile, and it should work.  I don't know what exactly to expect from it.
>
>BTW, I contacted James Simmons, a developer in linuxconsole and framebuffer.  He mentioned that this sort of thing (fb-backlight, new input keys) are planned for 2.5.x.  Which makes sense, as volume/eject keys are no big diff at the moment, but, as Michael Schmitz pointed out, the backlight-related changes should not be introduced under the table.
>
>So volume keys and eject key (power too?) should be merge-able after completion and some testing.
>
>Thanks for your help.
>
> eject.patch
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> Content-Encoding:
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