Support for Fn keys on a Sony laptop

[martinko]

Vishwanathan S V N wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> I posted this to the freebsd-mobile mailing list and got no response. Maybe someone from the freebsd-acpi list knows the answer.
> 
> I am new to FreeBSD so please be gentle on me, especially if this is a FAQ.
> 
> I am running DesktopBSD 1.6.1 live DVD on my sony vaio VGN SZ483NC laptop. I notice that the acpi_ibm module is very feature rich while the acpi_sony module almost feels like a stub. 
> 
> I know that under Linux there has been extensive work to reverse engineer the Fn keys on sony Vaio laptops. See 
> 
> http://tjworld.net/snc/
> 
> or
> 
> http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=465491
> 
> I am wondering if something similar to that is already available or in the works for FreeBSD as well?
> 
> If it not available, how much work would it be to port things over? Is the acpi_sony.c the relevant file to look into?
> 

Unfortunately the same situation we have with acpi_asus module which is 
actively developed at
http://sourceforge.net/projects/acpi4asus/ but FreeBSD port is ancient 
with very limited functionality.  :-(