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Chris Jones (cmsj) wrote : [hardy] Access IBM key on Thinkpad X40 not working

Binary package hint: acpi-support

My thinkpad X40 has a blue "Access IBM" button above the keyboard which in previous Ubuntu releases I mapped to Lock Screen.
In hardy, the key event is not being detected by GNOME's Keyboard Shortcut preferences capplet.

acpid sees it:

[Fri Mar 7 15:39:13 2008] received event "ibm/hotkey HKEY 00000080 00001018"
[Fri Mar 7 15:39:13 2008] notifying client 11989[0:0]
[Fri Mar 7 15:39:13 2008] notifying client 17907[110:122]
[Fri Mar 7 15:39:13 2008] executing action "/etc/acpi/thinkpad-thinkpad.sh"
[Fri Mar 7 15:39:13 2008] BEGIN HANDLER MESSAGES
[Fri Mar 7 15:39:13 2008] END HANDLER MESSAGES
[Fri Mar 7 15:39:13 2008] action exited with status 0
[Fri Mar 7 15:39:13 2008] completed event "ibm/hotkey HKEY 00000080 00001018"