From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Nov 30 0: 9:14 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mass.osd.bsdi.com (unknown [167.216.157.206]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C8B2E37B400 for ; Thu, 30 Nov 2000 00:09:12 -0800 (PST) Received: from mass.osd.bsdi.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mass.osd.bsdi.com (8.11.0/8.11.1) with ESMTP id eAU8HFF00768; Thu, 30 Nov 2000 00:17:16 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from msmith@mass.osd.bsdi.com) Message-Id: <200011300817.eAU8HFF00768@mass.osd.bsdi.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999 To: Nick Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Nick's semi-periodic hardware support prize -- take 2 In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 29 Nov 2000 21:34:25 PST." <3A25E6E1.24C006B9@quack.kfu.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2000 00:17:15 -0800 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > 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. -- ... every activity meets with opposition, everyone who acts has his rivals and unfortunately opponents also. But not because people want to be opponents, rather because the tasks and relationships force people to take different points of view. [Dr. Fritz Todt] V I C T O R Y N O T V E N G E A N C E To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message