netbsd man page for acpidalb

ACPIDALB(4)						   BSD 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.  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.

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