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ACPIDALB(4)             NetBSD Kernel Interfaces Manual            ACPIDALB(4)


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.  Behav-
     iour 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.

NetBSD 6.1.2                     May 18, 2008                     NetBSD 6.1.2