From owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Aug 17 19:11:56 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id BDACDF85 for ; Sun, 17 Aug 2014 19:11:56 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.metricspace.net (mail.metricspace.net [IPv6:2001:470:1f11:617::103]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 922B12500 for ; Sun, 17 Aug 2014 19:11:56 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [192.168.42.206] (unknown [172.16.2.75]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) (Authenticated sender: eric) by mail.metricspace.net (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 7126654165 for ; Sun, 17 Aug 2014 19:11:55 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: <53F0FE7A.2000301@metricspace.net> Date: Sun, 17 Aug 2014 15:11:54 -0400 From: Eric McCorkle User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Update on Lenovo W540 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-BeenThere: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18-1 Precedence: list List-Id: Mobile computing with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 17 Aug 2014 19:11:56 -0000 I've finally gotten the time to do some more work on the laptop. In the course of that, a few questions/points came up: * The only device not currently being detected (aside from the wireless card) is some kind of "active management technology" interface. It seems there was a driver (heci) under development for that at some point. On the other hand, I did some research on this device, and the "features" seem rather ominous (remote execution, automated updates, etc), so I'm not sure I want it enabled... * Tethering to a smartphone works (urndis driver), and is my current workaround for the lack of a wireless driver. * The nvidia driver still does not work. I'm working to track down the cause, but it looks like some sort of ACPI-related issue. * The acpi_ibm and acpi_video drivers load, but the keys don't seem to work. Is there some config file that needs to be written to map the keys to the right functions? Also, setting the hw.acpi.video. variables doesn't seem to do anything. There are apparently two devices: lcd0 and lcd1 hw.acpi.video.lcd[01].active are both 0, and attempting to set them to 1 does nothing. The .brightness, .fullpower, and .economy variables likewise seem to have no effect. * The method for changing the X keymap to dvorak seems to have changed. I used to do this by setting 'Option "XkbLayout" "dvorak"' in /etc/X11/xorg.conf, but that doesn't seem to be working. Did something change recently? * There seem to be some issues with alsalib (I posted to the -sound list). Pulseaudio, firefox, and flash player seem to work fine, but anything based on alsalib doesn't. * The USB system continues to report timeout errors on startup and resume, but they don't seem to have any real effect.