Re: rebinding keys to functions

2009-09-15 Thread Roland Smith
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

Re: rebinding keys to functions

2009-09-15 Thread perryh
Roland Smith rsm...@xs4all.nl wrote: Writing a driver to detect if headphones are connected sounds much more complicated to me than connecting a couple of switches! I mean, you'd have to measure something like the impedance of the jack. Surely that is more expensive than a simple switch? Or

Re: rebinding keys to functions

2009-09-15 Thread Mel Flynn
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

rebinding keys to functions

2009-09-14 Thread Eitan Adler
My laptop has a bunch of volume-up/down/mute internet/mail/etc keys. How do I map each of them to run a specific shell command when pressed? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To

Re: rebinding keys to functions

2009-09-14 Thread Roland Smith
On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 04:52:56PM +, Eitan Adler wrote: My laptop has a bunch of volume-up/down/mute internet/mail/etc keys. How do I map each of them to run a specific shell command when pressed? That depends on a couple of things (assuming you're running the X window system, I don't know

Re: rebinding keys to functions

2009-09-14 Thread Robert Huff
Roland Smith writes: My laptop has a bunch of volume-up/down/mute internet/mail/etc keys. How do I map each of them to run a specific shell command when pressed? That depends on a couple of things (assuming you're running the X window system, I don't know if it is even possible

Re: rebinding keys to functions

2009-09-14 Thread Polytropon
On Mon, 14 Sep 2009 14:34:29 -0400, Robert Huff roberth...@rcn.com wrote: Roland Smith writes: My laptop has a bunch of volume-up/down/mute internet/mail/etc keys. How do I map each of them to run a specific shell command when pressed? That depends on a couple of things

Re: rebinding keys to functions

2009-09-14 Thread Roland Smith
On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 11:06:20PM +0200, Polytropon wrote: On Mon, 14 Sep 2009 14:34:29 -0400, Robert Huff roberth...@rcn.com wrote: Roland Smith writes: My laptop has a bunch of volume-up/down/mute internet/mail/etc keys. How do I map each of them to run a specific shell

Re: rebinding keys to functions

2009-09-14 Thread Mel Flynn
On Tuesday 15 September 2009 00:40:38 Roland Smith wrote: On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 11:06:20PM +0200, Polytropon wrote: On Mon, 14 Sep 2009 14:34:29 -0400, Robert Huff roberth...@rcn.com wrote: Roland Smith writes: My laptop has a bunch of volume-up/down/mute internet/mail/etc