Fn keys on Dell E1405

[Daniel Eischen]

On Wed, 26 Jul 2006, john at utzweb.net wrote:

>> Greetings and salutations,
>>
>> Is there anything I can do to get Fn key functionality on
>> my Dell E1405 notebook?
>
> port the nice linux i8ktools to freebsd before i do :-)

I do not know what they are.  I would expect my keys to work
without using a port (assuming you turned i8ktools into a port)
;-)

> i started last weekend (i only have hxring time on the weekends) and i am
> sure that i will eventually finish it successfully if somebody else doesnt
> do it first.
>
> i dont know if it will look much like the linux version when i am
> finished, it makes use of the proc filesystem.
>
> we do have a proc filesystem that we can kldload, but i am not sure how
> robust it is and i dont want to be requiring an additional kld if my code
> would be the only one using it.
>
> it also uses a kernel timer to manage checking the keystrokes, i am not
> sure if i wanna do that, i'd rather limit the kernel part to be limited to
> the creation of /dev/smm and let the rest of the stuff happen in a daemon,
> but i havent gotten far enuf along to have a coherent opinion ( i just
> finally got the assembly code working to the point where i can get the
> bios version back - banal, but critical :-) )
>
>>  I've seen the patches for video
>> switching and will try them at some point, but it's not
>> as important to me as getting suspend/resume and wireless
>> radio on/off.  Also getting the CD/DVD drive to eject would
>> be nice.
>>
>> I'm using the latest and greatest BIOS on this system, and
>> the output of 'acpidump -dt' is at:
>>
>>    http://people.freebsd.org/~deischen/e1405.acpi.dump
>>
>> FYI, I can get the system to suspend by hitting the power
>> button or by Fn+Esc (standby), but it will not wakeup
>> no matter what I do.
>
> not wake up or not restore the display? can you ping it?

I'm not that dense!  The system is suspended -- no pingy,
no fanny, no disky, no LEDy, no nothing.

>>  Also, the wireless radio (Fn+F2)
>> will turn the radio off, but will not toggle it back
>> on.
>
> that's odd, i would have expected it to not work period.

Yeah, me too.

>>  Fn+F8 (CRT/LCD) does not work (will try those
>> patches) and Fn+F10 (eject CD/DVD), Fn+PageUp (vol
>> up), Fn+PageDown (vol down), Fn+End (mute), also
>> do not work.
>
> i8k !

Knock yourself out ;-)

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DE