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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>
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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.
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> Most likely not entirely. Having acpidump(8)ed a few laptops, I have seen=
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> 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
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R.F.Smith                                   http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/
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