Date: Tue, 15 Sep 2009 12:40:10 +0200 From: Mel Flynn <mel.flynn+fbsd.questions@mailing.thruhere.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: Roland Smith <rsmith@xs4all.nl>, Eitan Adler <eitanadlerlist@gmail.com>, Robert Huff <roberthuff@rcn.com>, Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> Subject: Re: rebinding keys to functions Message-ID: <200909151240.10909.mel.flynn%2Bfbsd.questions@mailing.thruhere.net> In-Reply-To: <20090915070100.GA91800@slackbox.xs4all.nl> References: <a0777e080909140952r18cc88b3n2b3ff1456c2542c7@mail.gmail.com> <200909150138.18798.mel.flynn%2Bfbsd.questions@mailing.thruhere.net> <20090915070100.GA91800@slackbox.xs4all.nl>
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On Tuesday 15 September 2009 09:01:00 Roland Smith wrote:
> 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?
Example, HPDV9000:
If (LEqual (Local1, 0x07))
{
Store ("Fn+F7 Pressed", Debug)
If (LEqual (OSYS, 0x07D6))
{
If (IGDS)
{
Notify (\_SB.PCI0.GFX0.DD04, 0x87)
}
Else
{
Notify (\_SB.PCI0.PEGP.VGA.LCD, 0x87)
}
}
Else
{
Store (0x15, SMIF)
Store (0x00, TRP0)
}
Fn+F7 = screen darker. See the ref to OSYS.
Also:
Method (_Q16, 0, NotSerialized)
{
Store ("!!! DVD/Music Button pressed !!!", Debug)
If (LEqual (OSYS, 0x07D6))
{
And:
If (\_OSI ("Windows 2006"))
{
Store (0x07D6, OSYS)
}
--
Mel
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