passing events to userland

2003-10-11 Thread edscott wilson garcia
Hi, I'm using Hiroyuki's toshiba_acpi patch (posted on the freebsd-mobile list), and it captures the extra buttons for acpi settings. I want to use such events to do things in userland. Does anybody know how to pass make a kernel module generate a specific keypress event in userland? Any ideas

toshiba-acpi-extras

2003-08-17 Thread edscott wilson garcia
Does anybody know if there are plans to port the toshiba-acpi-extras from linux to the freebsd kernel? Without these additional acpi variables it is not possible to adjust the LCD brightness for recent Toshiba laptops (satellite 2400,2450,2455 and others). Not being able to dim the LCD screen is

incorrect keyboard response

2003-07-28 Thread edscott wilson garcia
I am installing FreeBSD on a new laptop but have problems with the keyboard within X. Symptoms: if the pause between stroking key1 and key2 is short, key1 is repeated. When: FreeBSD 5.1, always. FreeBSD 4.8, only when the XKEYBOARD extension is enabled. I've tried modifying the key repeat

ehci in kernel

2003-07-28 Thread edscott wilson garcia
I have already done everything to make my usb keyboard work in FreeBSD (both 4.8 and 5.1) to no avail. It detects is correctly and sets it up as supposed to, but the show does not go on. In linux the usbkeyboard works but there is also a ehci controller loaded (ehci-hcd 00:1d.7: Intel Corp.

checking for headers

2003-01-22 Thread edscott wilson garcia
do I have to add so that it will search /usr/local/include in FreeBSD? MTIA, Edscott Wilson Garcia To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message

front end to pkg_xxx

2002-09-24 Thread edscott wilson garcia
I've been thinking about writing a gtk2 frontend for the pkg_ series of programs (pkg_add, pkg_create, pkg_delete, pkg_info, pkg_update, pkg_version) but maybe it's already been done. Has it been done before? Edscott Wilson Garcia To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED