From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jan 28 13:20:36 2004 Return-Path: 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 7921016A4CE for ; Wed, 28 Jan 2004 13:20:36 -0800 (PST) Received: from sccrmhc11.comcast.net (sccrmhc11.comcast.net [204.127.202.55]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 759D643D2D for ; Wed, 28 Jan 2004 13:20:33 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from julian@elischer.org) Received: from interjet.elischer.org ([24.7.73.28]) by comcast.net (sccrmhc11) with ESMTP id <2004012821203201100lnlgie>; Wed, 28 Jan 2004 21:20:32 +0000 Received: from localhost (localhost.elischer.org [127.0.0.1]) by InterJet.elischer.org (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with ESMTP id NAA07640; Wed, 28 Jan 2004 13:20:30 -0800 (PST) Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2004 13:20:29 -0800 (PST) From: Julian Elischer To: Taku YAMAMOTO In-Reply-To: <20040129060727.619f3866.taku@cent.saitama-u.ac.jp> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: API to turn off the display X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2004 21:20:36 -0000 On Thu, 29 Jan 2004, Taku YAMAMOTO wrote: > > I wrote a driver that handles what John told. > > http://access.cent.saitama-u.ac.jp/~taku/freebsd/acpi_vid-20031013.tar.gz > MD5 (acpi_vid-20031013.tar.gz) = adbfa6931e505544fb784e00c7b974e7 > > This driver uses ACPI video extension to control display switching and > backlight brightness. So working ACPI is a requisition for this driver. > > Whether it does or does not work depends heavily on how well the BIOS written, > however, I hope it worth trying. > > Suggestions, working/not-working reports etc are very appreciated. > > Sincerely, I'll try this tonight.. You are my hero :-) now all we need is the ata code to shut down the drive it it is idle for some timeout .. :-)