From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Sep 15 07:01:06 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D5903106566C for ; Tue, 15 Sep 2009 07:01:06 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rsmith@xs4all.nl) Received: from smtp-vbr1.xs4all.nl (smtp-vbr1.xs4all.nl [194.109.24.21]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4EFDA8FC14 for ; Tue, 15 Sep 2009 07:01:05 +0000 (UTC) Received: from slackbox.xs4all.nl (slackbox.xs4all.nl [213.84.242.160]) by smtp-vbr1.xs4all.nl (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id n8F710PV098315; Tue, 15 Sep 2009 09:01:03 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from rsmith@xs4all.nl) Received: by slackbox.xs4all.nl (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 20A67BA84; Tue, 15 Sep 2009 09:01:00 +0200 (CEST) Date: Tue, 15 Sep 2009 09:01:00 +0200 From: Roland Smith To: Mel Flynn Message-ID: <20090915070100.GA91800@slackbox.xs4all.nl> References: <20090914230620.2f7dd3d4.freebsd@edvax.de> <20090914224038.GA77585@slackbox.xs4all.nl> <200909150138.18798.mel.flynn+fbsd.questions@mailing.thruhere.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="opJtzjQTFsWo+cga" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200909150138.18798.mel.flynn+fbsd.questions@mailing.thruhere.net> X-GPG-Fingerprint: 1A2B 477F 9970 BA3C 2914 B7CE 1277 EFB0 C321 A725 X-GPG-Key: http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/pubkey.txt X-GPG-Notice: If this message is not signed, don't assume I sent it! User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) X-Virus-Scanned: by XS4ALL Virus Scanner Cc: Eitan Adler , Robert Huff , Polytropon , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: rebinding keys to functions 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: Tue, 15 Sep 2009 07:01:06 -0000 --opJtzjQTFsWo+cga Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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 funct= ion > > 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. >=20 > Most likely not entirely. Having acpidump(8)ed a few laptops, I have seen= =20 > references to multimedia keys in there. However I know not nearly enough = about=20 > ACPI to know if the OS can intercept/reroute the bindings. A gamble I wou= ld=20 > take is to let FreeBSD post itself as a windows variant to acpi, by setti= ng=20 > hw.acpi.osname=3D"Windows 2001" in /boot/loader.conf. Then recheck xev. What would you see in the acpidump that indicates those keys? Roland --=20 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) --opJtzjQTFsWo+cga Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.13 (FreeBSD) iEYEARECAAYFAkqvO6wACgkQEnfvsMMhpyVu7gCglNCt2D7toXTChfJ6ofIHqLLL RK8An35fWbuC761tjLqHSuxAEaVmt9TF =yMEc -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --opJtzjQTFsWo+cga--