ACPIDALB(4) BSD Kernel Interfaces Manual ACPIDALB(4)NAMEacpidalb — 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 ALSOacpi(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.
BSD May 18, 2008 BSD