NAME
acpi_panasonic —
ACPI hotkey driver for Panasonic
laptops
SYNOPSIS
To compile this driver into the kernel, place the following line in your kernel configuration file:
device acpi_panasonicAlternatively, to load the driver as a module at boot time, place the following line in loader.conf(5):
acpi_panasonic_load="YES"
DESCRIPTION
Theacpi_panasonic driver enables such hotkey facilities
of various Panasonic laptops as changing LCD brightness, controlling mixer
volumes, entering sleep or suspended state and so on. On the following models
it is reported to work: Let's note (or Toughbook, outside Japan) CF-R1N,
CF-R2A and CF-R3. It may also work on other models as well.
The driver consists of three functionalities. The first is to detect hotkey events and take corresponding actions, which include changing LCD luminance and speaker mute state. The second role is to notify occurrences of the event by way of devctl(4) and eventually to devd(8). The third and last is to provide a way to adjust LCD brightness and sound mute state via sysctl(8).
Hotkeys
There are 9 hotkeys available on the supported hardware:
- Fn+F1
- Make LCD backlight darker.
- Fn+F2
- Make LCD backlight brighter.
- Fn+F3
- Switch video output between LCD and CRT. Not supported by the
acpi_panasonicdriver. - Fn+F4
- Toggle muting the speaker.
- Fn+F5
- Turn the mixer volume down.
- Fn+F6
- Turn the mixer volume up.
- Fn+F7
- Enter suspend-to-RAM state.
- Fn+F9
- Show battery status.
- Fn+F10
- Enter suspend-to-disk state.
Actions are automatically taken within the driver for Fn+F1, Fn+F2 and Fn+F4. For the other events such as mixer control and showing battery status, devd(8) should take the role as described below.
devd(8) Ss Events
When notified to devd(8), the hotkey event provides the following information:
- system
- "
ACPI" - subsystem
- "
Panasonic" - type
- The source of the event in ACPI namespace. The value depends on the model
but typically "
\_SB_.HKEY". - notify
- Event code (see below).
Event codes to be generated are assigned as follows:
SYSCTL VARIABLES
The following MIBs are available:
- hw.acpi.panasonic.lcd_brightness_max
- The maximum level of brightness. The value is read only and automatically set according to hardware model.
- hw.acpi.panasonic.lcd_brightness_min
- The minimum level of brightness. The value is read only and automatically set according to hardware model.
- hw.acpi.panasonic.lcd_brightness
- Current brightness level of the LCD (read-write). The value ranges from hw.acpi.panasonic.lcd_brightness_min to hw.acpi.panasonic.lcd_brightness_max.
- hw.acpi.panasonic.sound_mute
- A read-write boolean flag to control whether to mute the speaker. The value 1 means to mute and 0 not.
SEE ALSO
HISTORY
The acpi_panasonic driver first appeared
in FreeBSD 5.3. It was then ported to
DragonFly 2.5.
AUTHORS
The acpi_panasonic driver and this manual
page were written by OGAWA Takaya
<t-ogawa@triaez.kaisei.org>
and TAKAHASHI Yoshihiro
<nyan@FreeBSD.org>.