From owner-freebsd-current Thu Nov 21 8: 8:30 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CD9D937B401 for ; Thu, 21 Nov 2002 08:08:28 -0800 (PST) Received: from tasogare.imasy.or.jp (tasogare.imasy.or.jp [202.227.24.5]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2DBE043E91 for ; Thu, 21 Nov 2002 08:08:27 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from iwasaki@jp.FreeBSD.org) Received: from localhost (iwa@tasogare.imasy.or.jp [202.227.24.5]) by tasogare.imasy.or.jp (8.11.6+3.4W/8.11.6/tasogare) with ESMTP/inet id gALG8Ai20959; Fri, 22 Nov 2002 01:08:11 +0900 (JST) (envelope-from iwasaki@jp.FreeBSD.org) Date: Fri, 22 Nov 2002 01:07:45 +0900 (JST) Message-Id: <20021122.010745.71546381.iwasaki@jp.FreeBSD.org> To: roberto@keltia.freenix.fr Cc: current@freebsd.org, acpi-jp@jp.freebsd.org Subject: recommended VAIO for ACPI hacking (Re: cvs commit: www/en/releases/5.0R todo.sgml) From: Mitsuru IWASAKI In-Reply-To: <20021121144730.GA12835@tara.freenix.org> References: <20021121.223545.26269929.iwasaki@jp.FreeBSD.org> <20021121144730.GA12835@tara.freenix.org> X-Mailer: Mew version 2.2 on Emacs 20.7 / Mule 4.0 (HANANOEN) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG [moved to current@ and acpi-jp@jp] Hi, > According to Mitsuru IWASAKI: > > If your ACPI BIOS check OS type (try; acpidump | grep _OS_), you might > > need to do something. The black list feature (for non-Windows) might be > > good idea for avoiding confusion. > > Will try tonite when I'll have my laptop. Thanks. > > Also, development resources are limited. For example, none of ACPI > > developers has VAIO. > > Well, I don't know enough to be a developper but I do have a VAIO (Z600TEK) > and can test things. Just ask. BTW, I'm planning to buy VAIO (maybe used one) to improve ACPI support. Any recommendations? # Recommendation means some sort of `Sigh! My VAIO doesn't work with # ACPI at all!!' :-) Thanks To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message