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From: Bruno Ducrot <ducrot@poupinou.org>
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Subject: Re: NB Acer [3|5]0x and ACPI
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On Sun, Sep 25, 2005 at 05:08:11PM -0300, AT Matik wrote:
> hi
> 
> i am wondering if some got this acer nb's working well on v5 or v6
> 
> I have an Acer 3002 and fbsd6-B5 is installing and working fine for me  when 
> not looking at notebook issues ...
> 
> I have no battery control at all and when it comes to end it is like a 
> power-failure (=off)
> 
> I noticed zillions of "AE_whatever_battery_.." in messages and I could stop 
> this by
> 
> debug.acpi.disabled="cmbat"
> 
> in /boot/loader.conf
> 
> I set 
> 
> apm_enable="YES"
> 
> in rc.conf and in KDE the kdelaptopd reports "on AC"or "on Bat" but still no 
> powermangement and it's ever fully charged or empty
> 
> apm is not compiled in my kernel as well as acpi is not and acpi is normally 
> loaded at boot
> 
> even if I see msgs like "power_profile economy" in messages after some time of 
> inactivity there is no real power management
> 
> is there anybody doing better or has suggestions?
> 
> I saw a doc about Acer smart batteries on FBSD and ACPI, does it mean that 
> acpi is not working on my NB actually?

This issue is not the same.  It's pretty well known and require to
hack a little the DSDT unfortunately.  I'm not sure if one day someone
will write a workaround other than to replace the DSDT alas.

Could you please send to me, or better point to a web link,
the output from 'acpidmp -dt'?

> the page of the following link do has any chance on Fbsd?
> 
> http://www.archernar.co.uk/acer_acpi/acer_acpi_main.html
> 
> So final question is if some compiled with success amd64 on this NB with 
> Sempron Mobile 2800+ (1600Mhz) ?
> 
> Joćo
> 
> btw: who wants to now the onboard broadcom WL is working very well with ndis 
> on 2.4 and 5.8 to my surprise

-- 
Bruno Ducrot

--  Which is worse:  ignorance or apathy?
--  Don't know.  Don't care.