From owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jun 12 07:14:37 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6925D16A41A for ; Mon, 12 Jun 2006 07:14:37 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from peterjeremy@optushome.com.au) Received: from mail08.syd.optusnet.com.au (mail08.syd.optusnet.com.au [211.29.132.189]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C621843D45 for ; Mon, 12 Jun 2006 07:14:36 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from peterjeremy@optushome.com.au) Received: from turion.vk2pj.dyndns.org (c220-239-19-236.belrs4.nsw.optusnet.com.au [220.239.19.236]) by mail08.syd.optusnet.com.au (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id k5C7EXcr016635 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA bits=168 verify=NO); Mon, 12 Jun 2006 17:14:35 +1000 Received: from turion.vk2pj.dyndns.org (localhost.vk2pj.dyndns.org [127.0.0.1]) by turion.vk2pj.dyndns.org (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k5C7EX12034725; Mon, 12 Jun 2006 17:14:33 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from peter@turion.vk2pj.dyndns.org) Received: (from peter@localhost) by turion.vk2pj.dyndns.org (8.13.6/8.13.6/Submit) id k5C7EWcH034724; Mon, 12 Jun 2006 17:14:32 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from peter) Date: Mon, 12 Jun 2006 17:14:32 +1000 From: Peter Jeremy To: "John L.Utz III" Message-ID: <20060612071432.GE739@turion.vk2pj.dyndns.org> References: <863bebxmyw.wl%john@utzweb.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <863bebxmyw.wl%john@utzweb.net> X-PGP-Key: http://members.optusnet.com.au/peterjeremy/pubkey.asc User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11 Cc: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FBSD 6.1 and Latitude C400 ACPI Keyboard issue X-BeenThere: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Mobile computing with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 12 Jun 2006 07:14:37 -0000 On Sun, 2006-Jun-11 23:59:51 +0000, John L.Utz III wrote: >If i boot said dell sans acpi i can use the 'Fn' stuff to access the bios and >battery state and all that good stuff. > >but with acpi enabled, this isnt possible. has anybody figured out how to make this work? My guess is that with ACPI enabled, the BIOS is returning the keypresses as keycodes (you can verify this using, eg, xev) and expecting the OS to do the rest. Takanori Watanabe has already provided a different reply to this question on -acpi. -- Peter Jeremy