[Pkg-acpi-devel] Bug#586924: Bug#586924: acpi-support: Rules calling acpi_fakekey cause events to be reported tiwce

[Michael Meskes]

On Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 05:03:58PM +0200, Luca Niccoli wrote:
> New kernels (since some time before 2.6.32) synthesize XF86 keyboard event
> themselves (at least in asus_acpi and eeepc-laptop, but from a look at the
> sources I reckon it's generally true for modules in drivers/platform/x86);

Your assumption unfortunately is wrong. We keep removing event handlers for
keys that are correctly generated by the kernel, but so far not all are.
Actually we had to put some handlers back in after upstream removed them
because the keys were not generated in the Debian kernel.

> since acpi-support does it too, the keystrokes are reported twice.  This is
> obviously a problem for things like muting and brightness.

Sure, but we need to know exactly which key handling event files need to be
removed. If your are talking about /etc/acpi/events/asus-eee-volume-* they will
be removed with the next upload. The files are no longer distributed in the
package but the writer of this email simply forgot to rm_conffile them in the
preinst of said package. 

Michael
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