From owner-freebsd-acpi@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Oct 22 16:56:58 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-acpi@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E68C716A474 for ; Mon, 22 Oct 2007 16:56:58 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from nate@root.org) Received: from root.org (root.org [67.118.192.226]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AA4CE13C49D for ; Mon, 22 Oct 2007 16:56:58 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from nate@root.org) Received: (qmail 49877 invoked from network); 22 Oct 2007 16:56:35 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ?192.168.1.77?) (nate-mail@71.141.139.72) by root.org with ESMTPA; 22 Oct 2007 16:56:35 -0000 Message-ID: <471CD63E.1070301@root.org> Date: Mon, 22 Oct 2007 09:56:30 -0700 From: Nate Lawson User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.6 (Windows/20070728) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Ivan B. Serezhkin" References: <471959F1.4070705@serezhkin.com> <20071021191815.GB19997@amilo.cenkes.org> <471CCCCF.60507@serezhkin.com> In-Reply-To: <471CCCCF.60507@serezhkin.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.3 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-acpi@freebsd.org Subject: Re: notebook display brightness X-BeenThere: freebsd-acpi@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: ACPI and power management development List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 22 Oct 2007 16:56:59 -0000 Ivan B. Serezhkin wrote: > Andrew Pantyukhin wrote: >>> I found a >>> strange problem that I do not want to solve: Fn button->> bright> and Fn - only works on the console and >>> not working under xorg. >>> >> >> All I can tell you is that several people have this problem >> (including me), and that it was a regression in one of the last >> Xorg releases, i.e. it used to work. >> > Thank for this, i used notebooks earlier and never found this problem, i > mistakly thinks that t problem of this model. >> >>> Also, I am interested in obtaining closing notebook event to >>> execute some scripts. >>> >> >> Have a look at devd.conf(5) >> > Thanks again, devd knows acpi - amazing ! =) > But can you poin me to some documentation or articles about programming? > I already read acpi specification and sources of acpiconf and acpidb, > but acpiconf uses limited by driver set of commands, and this is not > enought for real work. > Have we some acpi stack ? Have we well known way to do it ? > If we not have it, i can try to do this stack, but ofcourse i need guide > with this doings =) It has mostly nothing to do with acpi. X.org is taking over graphics and thus the BIOS stops handling key presses. Perhaps in Windows, there is some proprietary utility that handles this case. So what I would do is find that utility on your Windows partition (probably called "Samsung hotkeys" or something), throw it into IDA Pro, and start reversing. Or look for a Linux project that is already doing that. -- Nate