From owner-freebsd-current Thu Feb 20 12: 5:47 2003 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 B6D0437B401 for ; Thu, 20 Feb 2003 12:05:45 -0800 (PST) Received: from horse03.daimi.au.dk (horse03.daimi.au.dk [130.225.18.243]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DC95A43F75 for ; Thu, 20 Feb 2003 12:05:43 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from rhazn@daimi.au.dk) Received: (from rhazn@localhost) by horse03.daimi.au.dk (8.11.6/8.11.6) id h1KK5ba17191; Thu, 20 Feb 2003 21:05:37 +0100 Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2003 21:05:37 +0100 From: Peter Gade Jensen To: Morten Rodal Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ACPI: -dp2 vs. -release Message-ID: <20030220200537.GA16739@horse03.daimi.au.dk> References: <20030220134527.GA15145@dazzler.daimi.au.dk> <20030220154956.GB43452@slurp.rodal.no> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030220154956.GB43452@slurp.rodal.no> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i X-GPG-Fingerprint: 33AF B563 58F1 04AB 417E AA69 06C6 32AC 5AD1 6815 X-GPG-URL: http://daimi.au.dk/~rhazn/gpgkey.asc 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 On Thu, Feb 20, 2003 at 04:49:56PM +0100, Morten Rodal wrote: > I have the same feature on my Dell laptop. The screen's brightness > (or dim if you want) will go down when the computer is running on > batteries. yes this happens with a 5.0-DP2 kernel. BUT not with a never kernel. > It is however possible to change this back to normal with > the "Fn" key (you probably have something similiar on your Toshiba) so > that the brightness back to "normal." Dell laptops remember this, so > the next time I run the computer on batteries it will restore the > brightness to the level I had last time I used it on batteries. The Fn-keys for turning the brightness up/down doesn't work with 5.0 on my laptop. > I do not think this has anything to do with ACPI implimentation in > FreeBSD. Since the brightness was turned down because the machine was put into economy-mode and the powermanagment is handled by the ACPI subsystem, I would believe that has. So the real question is: Can you configure the economy-profile to start doing it again? /peter -- If you hold a Unix shell to your ear, do you hear the C? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message