Latitude C400 FBSD 6.1 "Fn Key"'s work sans ACPI, not with

John L.Utz III john at utzweb.net
Mon Jun 12 08:12:02 UTC 2006


At Mon, 12 Jun 2006 16:53:11 +0900,
Takanori Watanabe wrote:
> 
> John L. Utz III wrote:
> >Hello!
> >
> >At Mon, 12 Jun 2006 16:04:35 +0900,
> >Takanori Watanabe wrote:
> >> 
> >> In message <8664j7xn91.wl%john at utzweb.net>, "John L.Utz III" wrote:
> >> >Hello;
> >> >
> >> >Dell Latitude's have a collection of functions that are accessible via an '
> >Fn'
> >> > key.
> >
> >> Please send me ASL file.;-)
> >
> >Thankupi for your interest!
> 
> Thanks for send me ASL file.
> 
> >> And additionaly you may want to dump 
> >> # devinfo -v
> >> to get device tree.
> 
> I awared that there are no hotkey device appeard in 
> ASL name space.
> Instead, hotkey events are handled by General Purpose Event 
> number 0x1D at \_GPE._L1D along with Suspend button and Power button
> by eventually call BIOS with banging SMI port.
> 
> If power button or suspend button works for you, 
> some condition may prevent SMI from working.

Working hotkeys:

Brightness (Fn+UpArrow,Fn+DownArrow)
NumLock (Fn+F4)
ScrollLk (Fn+F5)
CRT/LCD (Fn+F8)
PrntScn (Fn+F11)
Pause   (Fn+F12)


NotWorking hotkeys:

Setup (Fn+F1)
Batt  (Fn+F3)

SortofWorking

Power Button

 it will shut off the computer and it seems to want to resume the
 computer but the screen stays black

 if i push it a second time them the computer shuts down

Suspend (Fn+Esc)
 In Xorg, the screen turns into a very kawai melting looking thing


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