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 > > > > > 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 on the > > > > console). > > > > > > > > First you have to make sure that you actually can see the key > > > > signals. In X you can test that with xev(1). > > > > > > If this is what I think it is, he probably can't. > > > > For most laptop keyboards, there was (as already explained) a > > specific system that handled Fn+PFx outside the OS so it worked > > always. Even my old Toshiba T1600 can do that. > > > > "Modern" laptops do it differently: Fn+PFx key combinations > > have to be picked up by a specific driver that "listens" to > > stange and custom keycodes outside the standard range, and then > > communicate the selected purpose to the OS in order to perform > > the action, e. g. raise the volume. > > 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. -- Mel _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"