Date: Tue, 13 Sep 2005 10:41:26 +0400 From: Vladimir Grebenschikov <vova@fbsd.ru> To: Christian Brueffer <chris@unixpages.org> Cc: Emanuel Strobl <Emanuel.strobl@gmx.net>, freebsd-current@freebsd.org, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: acpi_sony - no powerd, no man page! Message-ID: <1126593686.1070.20.camel@localhost> In-Reply-To: <20050911102044.GA1142@unixpages.org> References: <200509110042.31358@harrymail> <20050911102044.GA1142@unixpages.org>
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=F7 =D7=D3, 11/09/2005 =D7 12:20 +0200, Christian Brueffer =D0=C9=DB=C5=D4: > On Sun, Sep 11, 2005 at 12:42:17AM +0200, Emanuel Strobl wrote: > > Hello, > >=20 > > I just installed BETA4 on my notebook and was curious about the acpi_so= ny=20 > > driver, but all I can see is that powerd soesn't work anymoder (if I ca= ll=20 > > powerd -a min dev.cpu.0.freq is still 800 wher it was 62 without acpi_s= ony=20 > > compiled in) and that I can set LCD brightness :) *bright_smile* > > But what does ctr, pcr, wdp and cdp mean? > > A short man page was wonderful! > > And is it known/intended that cpufreq doesn't work with acpi_sony? I have powerd worked for me without any problems (up to 211 Mhz) with acpi_sony # sysctl dev.acpi_sony dev.acpi_sony.0.brightness: 8 dev.acpi_sony.0.ctr: 0 dev.acpi_sony.0.pcr: 0 dev.acpi_sony.0.wdp: 1281 dev.acpi_sony.0.cdp: 1 dev.acpi_sony.0.%desc: Sony notebook controller dev.acpi_sony.0.%driver: acpi_sony dev.acpi_sony.0.%location: handle=3D\_SB_.PCI0.LPCB.SNC_ dev.acpi_sony.0.%pnpinfo: _HID=3DSNY5001 _UID=3D0 dev.acpi_sony.0.%parent: acpi0 # /etc/rc.d/powerd status powerd is running as pid 583. # grep powerd /etc/rc.conf powerd_enable=3D"YES" # Run powerd to lower our power usage. # sysctl dev.cpu dev.acpi_throttle=20 dev.cpu.0.%desc: ACPI CPU dev.cpu.0.%driver: cpu dev.cpu.0.%location: handle=3D\_PR_.CPU0 dev.cpu.0.%pnpinfo: _HID=3Dnone _UID=3D0 dev.cpu.0.%parent: acpi0 dev.cpu.0.freq: 422 dev.cpu.0.freq_levels: 1689/-1 1477/-1 1266/-1 1055/-1 844/-1 633/-1 422/-1= 211/-1 dev.acpi_throttle.0.%desc: ACPI CPU Throttling dev.acpi_throttle.0.%driver: acpi_throttle dev.acpi_throttle.0.%parent: cpu0 dev.acpi_throttle.0.freq_settings: 10000/-1 8750/-1 7500/-1 6250/-1 5000/-1= 3750/-1 2500/-1 1250/-1 # > I wrote a small manpage some time ago (more of a dummy kind), but haven't > committed it yet because it's not that useful... >=20 > The meanings of ctr, pcr, wdp and cdp are unknown. takawata@, who wrote > the driver, got his information solely from the DSDT of the BIOS. So, > he doesn't know the meaning either :-) Probably some info can be get from sysutils/sjog port, but not much. > - Christian >=20 --=20 Vladimir B. Grebenschikov vova@fbsd.ru
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