Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2006 14:20:24 -0400 (EDT) From: Daniel Eischen <deischen@freebsd.org> To: john@utzweb.net Cc: freebsd-acpi@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Fn keys on Dell E1405 Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.64.0607261415410.26919@sea.ntplx.net> In-Reply-To: <47098.69.93.78.27.1153937268.squirrel@69.93.78.27> References: <Pine.GSO.4.64.0607250953000.19799@sea.ntplx.net> <47098.69.93.78.27.1153937268.squirrel@69.93.78.27>
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On Wed, 26 Jul 2006, john@utzweb.net wrote: >> Greetings and salutations, >> >> Is there anything I can do to get Fn key functionality on >> my Dell E1405 notebook? > > port the nice linux i8ktools to freebsd before i do :-) I do not know what they are. I would expect my keys to work without using a port (assuming you turned i8ktools into a port) ;-) > i started last weekend (i only have hxring time on the weekends) and i am > sure that i will eventually finish it successfully if somebody else doesnt > do it first. > > i dont know if it will look much like the linux version when i am > finished, it makes use of the proc filesystem. > > we do have a proc filesystem that we can kldload, but i am not sure how > robust it is and i dont want to be requiring an additional kld if my code > would be the only one using it. > > it also uses a kernel timer to manage checking the keystrokes, i am not > sure if i wanna do that, i'd rather limit the kernel part to be limited to > the creation of /dev/smm and let the rest of the stuff happen in a daemon, > but i havent gotten far enuf along to have a coherent opinion ( i just > finally got the assembly code working to the point where i can get the > bios version back - banal, but critical :-) ) > >> I've seen the patches for video >> switching and will try them at some point, but it's not >> as important to me as getting suspend/resume and wireless >> radio on/off. Also getting the CD/DVD drive to eject would >> be nice. >> >> I'm using the latest and greatest BIOS on this system, and >> the output of 'acpidump -dt' is at: >> >> http://people.freebsd.org/~deischen/e1405.acpi.dump >> >> FYI, I can get the system to suspend by hitting the power >> button or by Fn+Esc (standby), but it will not wakeup >> no matter what I do. > > not wake up or not restore the display? can you ping it? I'm not that dense! The system is suspended -- no pingy, no fanny, no disky, no LEDy, no nothing. >> Also, the wireless radio (Fn+F2) >> will turn the radio off, but will not toggle it back >> on. > > that's odd, i would have expected it to not work period. Yeah, me too. >> Fn+F8 (CRT/LCD) does not work (will try those >> patches) and Fn+F10 (eject CD/DVD), Fn+PageUp (vol >> up), Fn+PageDown (vol down), Fn+End (mute), also >> do not work. > > i8k ! Knock yourself out ;-) -- DE
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