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acpi-support package

  1. Bug #217504
  2. Comment #79

Comment 79 for bug 217504

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Tom Jaeger (thjaeger) wrote : Re: [Bug 217504] Re: acpi_fakekey stopped working for certain keycodes

Steve Langasek wrote:
> acpi_fakekey (and acpi-support itself) is considered deprecated; mapping
> acpi events to input events should be handled by an in-kernel driver
> instead.
 And until that happens we have a perfectly viable alternative using
uinput. Just saying.

> Who has the original keyboard with the KEY_WWW problem? Is this still a
> problem in Ubuntu 8.10? If so, please provide information about your
> laptop model.
I'm not that person, but it's evident from the description that the
problem is still present in the version of acpi-support that is in intrepid.