More on Toshiba A305 SP6926A

[Polytropon]

On Fri, 14 Aug 2009 05:12:24 -0700 (PDT), Leonardo M. Ramé <martinrame at yahoo.com> wrote:
> A new issue I found is I can't control screen brightness & 
> contrast. This machine has this control in Windows by clicking
> the [FN Key]+F6/F7.

Erm, you are *clicking* the keys on the keyboard? With
the mouse? Would you explain how you do this? :-)

Polite / almost technical answer follows:


> Does anyone knows how to enable this in FreeBsd?

Traditionally, those functionalities - Fn + PFx in order to
change some "hardware setting" like brightness, contrast,
volume, CRT / LCD and others - are not the subject to the
OS, they are much more "lower level".

It's completely possible that those functionalities
require an OS specific driver (ugh) in order to work
correctly. I mean, even a simple switch isn't part of
the earphone socket anymore: If you want to use the
earphones, there needs to be software (double-ugh) that
switches off the internal speakers... by the way, we're
talking about a little piece of metal here.



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Polytropon
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Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0
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