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  1. Bug #267682
  2. Comment #112

Comment 112 for bug 267682

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Steve Langasek (vorlon) wrote : Re: [Bug 267682] Re: Some ThinkPad hotkeys don't work with evdev

On Sat, Dec 20, 2008 at 04:12:57PM -0000, Koopee wrote:

> When I updated a few weeks ago from Hardy to intrepid, toggling video
> output with Fn-f7 stopped working for me.

> Only Fn-F7 is broken, other Fn combinations work fine.

Known issue, resolved in jaunty.

The problem is that X won't share the thinkpad hotkey "input device" with
hal in the intrepid version, so X is told not to use it at all, and that
prevents X from seeing this particular key event - which is the only one
that should be handled through X directly instead of through the hal layer.

I don't think we'll be able to provide a good fix for that in intrepid.

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