Date: Tue, 15 Sep 2009 09:01:00 +0200 From: Roland Smith <rsmith@xs4all.nl> To: Mel Flynn <mel.flynn+fbsd.questions@mailing.thruhere.net> Cc: Eitan Adler <eitanadlerlist@gmail.com>, Robert Huff <roberthuff@rcn.com>, Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: rebinding keys to functions Message-ID: <20090915070100.GA91800@slackbox.xs4all.nl> In-Reply-To: <200909150138.18798.mel.flynn%2Bfbsd.questions@mailing.thruhere.net> References: <a0777e080909140952r18cc88b3n2b3ff1456c2542c7@mail.gmail.com> <20090914230620.2f7dd3d4.freebsd@edvax.de> <20090914224038.GA77585@slackbox.xs4all.nl> <200909150138.18798.mel.flynn%2Bfbsd.questions@mailing.thruhere.net>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 01:38:18AM +0200, Mel Flynn wrote: > > Not all of them. My laptop is based on a quite modern cantiga (aka > > centrino2) PM45 chipset (from 2008, according to Wikipedia). The function > > keys for changing the creen brightness and sound volume work OK with > > FreeBSD, even though xev doesn't see them. So that signal seems to go > > directly to the hardware. > > Most likely not entirely. Having acpidump(8)ed a few laptops, I have seen > references to multimedia keys in there. However I know not nearly enough about > ACPI to know if the OS can intercept/reroute the bindings. A gamble I would > take is to let FreeBSD post itself as a windows variant to acpi, by setting > hw.acpi.osname="Windows 2001" in /boot/loader.conf. Then recheck xev. What would you see in the acpidump that indicates those keys? Roland -- R.F.Smith http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/ [plain text _non-HTML_ PGP/GnuPG encrypted/signed email much appreciated] pgp: 1A2B 477F 9970 BA3C 2914 B7CE 1277 EFB0 C321 A725 (KeyID: C321A725) [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.13 (FreeBSD) iEYEARECAAYFAkqvO6wACgkQEnfvsMMhpyVu7gCglNCt2D7toXTChfJ6ofIHqLLL RK8An35fWbuC761tjLqHSuxAEaVmt9TF =yMEc -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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