Re: Laptop suggestions?
Ian Smith <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.os.freebsd.devel.mobile,gmane.os.freebsd.devel.hackers |
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On Thu, 23 Oct 2008, Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote: > Gary Kline <[email protected]> writes: > > I've seen that Fn key, but don't know what it is for. What? you press > > it, then follow with the integers [ 1, 2, 3 ... ]? At any rate, maybe > > you can remap the key with ~/.xmodmaprc. > > They're used to access keys which won't physically fit on a laptop > keyboard, such as the numeric keypad, NumLock, ScrollLock etc., and > (along with function keys) to control hardware-specific functions like > switching between internal and external display, turning bluetooth and > wlan on and off, adjusting the backlight brightness, etc. Not to mention the wonderful thinklight .. Re your original issue, can you get any mileage out of using acpi_ibm, devd and this post and/or the other one it references: http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/htdig/freebsd-mobile/2006-August/008959.html Seems strange a 'naked' Fn key doing something while running, though pressing Fn alone (or lifting the lid) wakes my T23 from its slumber. cheers, Ian _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-mobile To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"