Hi Ted, Thanks for your email.
‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ On Thursday, January 10, 2019 10:09 AM, Ted Unangst <t...@tedunangst.com> wrote: > Paul Swanson wrote: > > > This laptop is essentially all Intel Skylake under the hood some I'm > > wondering > > why it's not playing nice like on the Lenovo / ThinkPads. > > There's no guarantee that the screen backlight is actually wired to the > graphics chip and not just some acpi buttons. :( > That appears to be the case. I've noticed that a number of the Fn buttons don't register keypresses with X, such as the controls for screen and keypad backlights (whereas audio volume does). > > I'd really appreciate any advice on what I can try next, it's my first time > > running OpenBSD as my main system and I'm really enjoying it so far. > > Does it work at the bootloader, before the kernel runs? It seems that in the Dell BIOS I can adjust screen brightness (backlight) and that setting appears to continue to apply after OS boot; so I now have that as a workaround. I'd like to chase this up a bit further and see if there's anything I can do to improve support on this model; Ubuntu has great support so I can perhaps look for there for ideas and inspiration. Ted, do you have any suggestions for what parts of OpenBSD I should be looking at to improve support for these keys and functions? Cheers, Paul S.
