What's the story with acpi_fakekey?

[Norman Walsh]

I've got Ubuntu 6.06 running on my Thinkpad T42p. Everything seems to
be working fine. But when I switched from Gnome to KDE, the sleep
button stopped working.

It's very odd. Watching the acpid log, it's clear that pushing the
sleep button runs /etc/acpi/sleepbtn.sh. That script in turn runs
acpi_fakekey which basically does nothing.

I've poked around a bit, but I can't find any explanation of what
acpi_fakekey is supposed to do.

If I simply run /etc/acpi/sleep.sh, the machine sleeps fine.

                                        Be seeing you,
                                          norm

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Norman Walsh <ndw at nwalsh.com> | Once the game is over, the king and the
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