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Date:      Tue, 6 May 2014 16:12:28 -0700
From:      Adrian Chadd <adrian@freebsd.org>
To:        =?UTF-8?B?WMSrY8Oy?= <xico@atelo.org>
Cc:        "freebsd-acpi@freebsd.org" <freebsd-acpi@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Emitting keyboard events
Message-ID:  <CAJ-VmomkgZ39-unFA-rcCtY8YgJpTXpuGtVn%2Bbwv4CQW4xx=Kw@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20140501205706.GA6007@coyotlan.Tlalpan>
References:  <20140501205706.GA6007@coyotlan.Tlalpan>

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Just to follow up - I'd love to know how the hell to do this too.
acpi_ibm needs some updating. :(


-a


On 1 May 2014 13:57, X=C4=ABc=C3=B2 <xico@atelo.org> wrote:
> Dear freebsd-acpi,
>
> Being a systemd refugee, I am trying to setup FreeBSD on several
> machines here. As a first question, I cannot find any driver to handle
> the hotkeys on a 2011 Sony VPCZ2. sys/dev/acpi_support/acpi_sony.c only
> contains backlight support for old laptops. Is anyone aware of such a
> driver?
>
> In any case, I started playing a bit with ACPI in a module, and have
> been able to register a handler for the hotkeys, and decode the
> associated events. Unfortunately, I have no idead of what I could do
> with them. At some point, I would like Xorg to receive keyboard events,
> such as XF86MonBrightnessUp, but I lack the knowledge on how to emit
> that from kernel space.
>
> Thank you for your help!
>
> Best,
>
> --
> X=C4=ABc=C3=B2
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