acpi_fakekey?

[Jaime Davila]

Hello all,

After yesterday's synaptic-based update of several gnome packages, my 
thinkpad x40 is not able to sleep. T=Fn-F4 initiates something, but the 
screen goes blank, and the battery led never goes off.

I am slowly looking at the chain of events that gets executed when acpi 
detects fn-f4 being pressed. sleepbtn.sh runs, and that makes a call to 
acpi_fakekey. I've been able to find that it actually runs acpi_fakekey 
142, which somehow tries to make the laptop sleep.

Anyone knows how acpi_fakekey works, and where the response to 
acpi_fakekey 142 is defined? it looks like it simulates some sort of 
xserver event, but I'm just guessing.

Thanks in advance,

Jaime

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Jaime J. Davila
Assistant Professor of Computer Science
Hampshire College
School of Cognitive Science
jdavila at hampshire dot edu
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