On Monday, February 23, 2015 03:22:57 PM Anthony Jenkins wrote: > On 02/22/2015 01:08 PM, hiren panchasara wrote: > > I've just got a lightweight dell e7240 which is pretty nice with very > > good batterylife. > > > > Only trouble is none of the buttons work. > > > > Is there any hackery people do to make them work? Time permitting, I'd > > like to see if we can get something together which looks like acpi_ibm. > > Some machines throw acpi_wmi(4) events when those special buttons are > pushed. Load acpi_wmi(4) driver and cat /proc/wmistat0. The WMI > objects with hex numbers in the EVENT column *might* be for your keys. > My HP Envy Sleekbook uses WMI for the radios key, but I haven't figured > out how to get events for the LCD brightness control keys (although my > brightness controls *do* work). I used a Linux driver as a reference tho... > > I'd like to make the acpi_wmi(4) interface easier to use, but my backlog > of contributions I'm sitting on is only growing.
I've been waiting to see if you were going to post an update to rev 3 of your CMOS patch after Ian's last round of feedback FWIW. Much of his feedback seemed relevant (and I know you've already accepted some other rounds of feedback on that patch before then, hence 'v3') -- John Baldwin _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-acpi To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
