Emitting keyboard events

[Adrian Chadd]

Just to follow up - I'd love to know how the hell to do this too.
acpi_ibm needs some updating. :(


-a


On 1 May 2014 13:57, Xīcò <xico at atelo.org> wrote:
> Dear freebsd-acpi,
>
> Being a systemd refugee, I am trying to setup FreeBSD on several
> machines here. As a first question, I cannot find any driver to handle
> the hotkeys on a 2011 Sony VPCZ2. sys/dev/acpi_support/acpi_sony.c only
> contains backlight support for old laptops. Is anyone aware of such a
> driver?
>
> In any case, I started playing a bit with ACPI in a module, and have
> been able to register a handler for the hotkeys, and decode the
> associated events. Unfortunately, I have no idead of what I could do
> with them. At some point, I would like Xorg to receive keyboard events,
> such as XF86MonBrightnessUp, but I lack the knowledge on how to emit
> that from kernel space.
>
> Thank you for your help!
>
> Best,
>
> --
> Xīcò
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