NAME

acpidalb — Direct Application Launch Buttons

SYNOPSIS

acpidalb* at acpi?

DESCRIPTION

This driver provides support for PNP0C32 ACPI hotkeys a.k.a. “The Direct Application Launch Buttons”.

These are recognized on startup from system-wake or at runtime. Behaviour may differ from the standard specification in relation to the ACPI implementation.

The hotkeys are reported to the power management daemon as hotkey_button.

SEE ALSO

acpi(4), powerd(8)

The PNP0C32 specification is described in:

Microsoft Corporation, Direct Application Launch from System Startup on Windows Vista, http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/system/vista/DirAppLaunch.mspx, October 26, 2006.

HISTORY

The acpidalb driver appeared in NetBSD 5.0.

AUTHORS

This driver was written for NetBSD by Christoph Egger.