Re: Volume control buttons

[der Mouse <mouse%Rodents.Montreal.QC.CA@localhost>]

> some Sun keyboards have keys to control audio volume and brightness -
> we could have them send PMF events instead and teach audio drivers to
> listen for them so volume control via keyboard would work out of the
> box without any additional voodoo.

> Any objections?

Depends.  How hard would it (putatively) be to change them back, back
to being usable as general-purpose keys, coëval with the rest of the
keyboard's keys?  "Hack the kernel source"?  "Diddle the config,
reconfig the kernel"?  "wsconsctl ..."?  "sysctl ..."?

Provided it can be done without rebooting, I have no objections at all.
If it takes a kernel config change, I don't like it all that much but
could live with it.  If it takes hacking the source code, that _would_
quite bother me.

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