From owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jul 13 12:44:10 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9ED4116A4DA; Thu, 13 Jul 2006 12:44:10 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from anderson@centtech.com) Received: from mh2.centtech.com (moat3.centtech.com [207.200.51.50]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2444B43D46; Thu, 13 Jul 2006 12:44:10 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from anderson@centtech.com) Received: from [10.177.171.220] (neutrino.centtech.com [10.177.171.220]) by mh2.centtech.com (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id k6DCi9FS070985; Thu, 13 Jul 2006 07:44:09 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from anderson@centtech.com) Message-ID: <44B6401F.8050507@centtech.com> Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2006 07:44:15 -0500 From: Eric Anderson User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.4 (X11/20060612) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Daniel Eischen References: <20060711.104708.1159134898.imp@bsdimp.com> <200607111338.01412.mistry.7@osu.edu> <200607122136.54293.mistry.7@osu.edu> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV 0.87.1/1598/Thu Jul 13 06:38:16 2006 on mh2.centtech.com X-Virus-Status: Clean Cc: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Dell laptops X-BeenThere: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Mobile computing with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2006 12:44:10 -0000 On 07/13/06 07:29, Daniel Eischen wrote: > On Wed, 12 Jul 2006, Anish Mistry wrote: > >> On Tuesday 11 July 2006 23:54, Daniel Eischen wrote: >>> On Tue, 11 Jul 2006, Anish Mistry wrote: >>>> On Tuesday 11 July 2006 13:10, Daniel Eischen wrote: >>>>> Also, the Fn (the blue key) can't be used to suspend, control >>>>> volume, switch CRT/LCD, etc, and most importantly enable the >>>>> radio on the wireless card (Fn + F2). Even if the wpi driver >>>>> works, it's worthless if I can't enable the radio. >>>> >>>> It might simply need an acpi function keys driver for your >>>> system. Would you post an "acpidump -dt" from your system? >>> >>> Here it is: >>> >>> http://people.freebsd.org/~deischen/e1405.acpi.dump >>> >>> I don't know how to decipher it nor what to do with it. >> >> There doesn't seem to be a function key device. This probably means >> that pressing the keys just generate keyboard scan codes. >> >> Does acpi_video work for you? It looks like it should work. > > No, not really. Also, closing the lid will cause a suspend, > but after that it won't ever wakeup no matter what keys I > hit. > > # kldload /boot/kernel/acpi_video.ko > found TV(200), detectable by BIOS, head #0 > found CRT monitor(100), detectable by BIOS, head #0 > found unknown output(400), detectable by BIOS, head #0 > found unknown output(300), detectable by BIOS, head #0 > acpi_video1: on vgapci1 > evaluation of \\_SB_.PCI0.VID2._DOD makes no sense > > $ sysctl -a | grep acpi [..snip..] > hw.acpi.video.tv0.active: 0 > hw.acpi.video.crt0.active: 0 > hw.acpi.video.out0.active: 0 > hw.acpi.video.out1.active: 0 [..snip..] And then if you do: sysctl hw.acpi.video.out0.active=1 and then sysctl hw.acpi.video.out0.active=0 Does your screen do something? Eric -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Eric Anderson Sr. Systems Administrator Centaur Technology Anything that works is better than anything that doesn't. ------------------------------------------------------------------------