Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2000 00:17:15 -0800 From: Mike Smith <msmith@freebsd.org> To: Nick <nsayer@quack.kfu.com> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Nick's semi-periodic hardware support prize -- take 2 Message-ID: <200011300817.eAU8HFF00768@mass.osd.bsdi.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 29 Nov 2000 21:34:25 PST." <3A25E6E1.24C006B9@quack.kfu.com>
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> But now it is time for another one. Once again, the prize is US$100. The
> setting is my Sony Z505JE laptop, which has several functions available
> under Windows that do not work on FreeBSD. I suspect all of these
> devices are actually controlled the same way. Under Windows, there is a
> device driver for "Sony programmable I/O control" at 0x1080 and 0x1084,
> IRQ 11. I suspect that this device is how you can get at the jog wheel,
> the Fn+F3-5 buttons, and perhaps other things as well (I speculate
> perhaps the lid switch is in there).
The lid switch will be either hung off the EC or the ACPI GPIO registers.
Please make the output of "acpidump" available somewhere.
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