Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2007 18:00:41 -0700 From: Nate Lawson <nate@root.org> To: Eygene Ryabinkin <rea-fbsd@codelabs.ru> Cc: acpi@freebsd.org, current@freebsd.org, Jung-uk Kim <jkim@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: [HEADSUP] ACPI-CA 20070126 import Message-ID: <45FF3239.7080808@root.org> In-Reply-To: <45FEF6A6.30209@root.org> References: <200703161256.23996.jkim@FreeBSD.org> <53B52415C756A84E8A169F0E3673A32925FF83@IMCSRV6.MITRE.ORG> <20070319163113.GB96806@codelabs.ru> <45FEF6A6.30209@root.org>
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Nate Lawson wrote: > Eygene Ryabinkin wrote: >> Jung-uk, good day. >> >>>> I will import ACPI-CA 20070126 from Intel some time next week. >>>> Current mega-patch against -CURRENT is here: >>>> >>>> http://people.freebsd.org/~jkim/acpica-import-20070126.diff.gz >>>> >>>> (Note: Sorry, I had to gzip(1) it because it was too big.) >>>> >>>> This patch should fix many ACPI issues in -CURRENT (ACPI-CA 20051021), >>>> most notably memory leak. Full change log for ACPI-CA from the last >>>> import is here: >>>> >>>> http://people.freebsd.org/~jkim/acpica_changes_20051021_20070126.txt >>>> >>>> I believe it is quite stable because I have been using this patch on >>>> my primary desktop and laptop for a while and it was tested on amd64, >>>> i386, and ia64. However, since the patch is huge, I may have missed >>>> something. If you find something wrong, please let me know before it >>>> is too late. ;-) >> On my Asus A2000D laptop the ACPI patch brought one regression: >> the backlight control buttons are stopped to do their job. Before >> the patch they used to work, but with some "delay": to actually >> increase the brightness of the screen I used to press the "increase >> brightness" button once and then push five or six times any other >> F-button (volume up/down, mute, change VGA source or the brightness >> control button) to get the brightness go up. So I got the feeling >> of some queue that was pushed by the pressing of additional buttons. >> But now the brightness controls are just stopped to work. > > I think it's not the acpi-ca patch, it's the recent acpi_ec.c change. > Try it with rev 1.68 of that file. > Or better, try with rev 1.71 that I just committed. Fixed a bug where we weren't re-enabling the GPE, which could cause exactly this issue. -- Nate
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