From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Oct 18 02:01:17 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1302116A412 for ; Wed, 18 Oct 2006 02:01:17 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from nehe@cruzinternet.com) Received: from mail.cruzinternet.com (mail.cruzinternet.com [216.234.167.210]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 8E09F43D4C for ; Wed, 18 Oct 2006 02:01:16 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from nehe@cruzinternet.com) Received: (qmail 90484 invoked from network); 18 Oct 2006 02:01:15 -0000 Received: from iphost-216-234-182-9.cruzinternet.com (HELO ?192.168.1.2?) (216.234.182.9) by mail.cruzinternet.com with SMTP; 18 Oct 2006 02:01:15 -0000 Message-ID: <45358AEB.1040804@cruzinternet.com> Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2006 20:01:15 -0600 From: Jeff Molofee User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.7 (X11/20061015) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <20061017120049.6142216A54A@hub.freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <20061017120049.6142216A54A@hub.freebsd.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Subject: Re: freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 153, Issue 22 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2006 02:01:17 -0000 I need to ask a few random questions only because I have not found the information by browsing the net: If anyone is able to answer any of the questions I would appreciate it. 1. I've asked in the past about the usb keyboard driver for BSD. It seems that of the 3 USB keyboards that I have, none of the media keys will work on any of them unless I use the supplied PS/2 adapter and plug the keyboard in using the PS/2 port. I can then use volume up/down/mute on all 3 keyboards. If I take the PS/2 adapter off and use the keyboards in the USB port, only the standard keys are readable... the media keys return nothing to gnome's Keyboard Shortcuts program. I have tried all of the standard key reading programs, and they return nothing as well. Today I ran a live ubuntu cd on my machine and noticed the media keys work fine, they were even predefined and ready to go. Is this a problem with the BSD usb keyboard driver? Is there a patch, fix or anything I can do to add support (documentation on how to do this)? 2. Everyone knows Gnome 2.16 is out, and with it comes metacity 2.16.3. Along with all of the wonderful new features such as HAL, etc, metacity apparently supports aiglx in 2.16.3. Is this only on linux machines? and if not, can someone tell me how to add --*enable*-*compositor*. I have made an attempt, but it seem to complain about missing libcm (compositing?). I see the gnome bsd site says new eye candy. They could be talking about cairo only, but I'm crossing my fingers.