Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2008 14:36:30 +1100 From: Norberto Meijome <freebsd@meijome.net> To: Ian Smith <smithi@nimnet.asn.au> Cc: FreeBSD Stable ML <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Kernel panic when kldunload acpi_video Message-ID: <20080116143630.5852f88d@meijome.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.1080116135207.24343A-100000@gaia.nimnet.asn.au> References: <20080116105453.72c0b78e@meijome.net> <Pine.BSF.3.96.1080116135207.24343A-100000@gaia.nimnet.asn.au>
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On Wed, 16 Jan 2008 14:04:39 +1100 (EST)
Ian Smith <smithi@nimnet.asn.au> wrote:
> Beto, hi,
>
> not to detract from the seriousness of the problem,
Hey Ian,
> two dumb questions:
>
> 1) why would you need to unload it?
no reason at all really - other than I wanted to see if it made any difference and I stumbled upon it...or rather the whole system stumbled and crashed...
> ie did loading it fix the problem?
nope - it doesn't seem to be related to the ACPI brightness control.
>
> 2) does this mean the acpi_ibm brightness controls aren't working in X?
means exactly that, for me. ACPI msgs are triggered - the tpb util brings up the meter on the screen, but nothing actually changes. I need to double check with DRI disabled, but I think it wasnt working either. Tpb has never actually changed the meter of brightness, as it does with Volume - it has always been stuck in 0 ... never bothered to chase that down because the brightness changes happened anyway.
It does work fine on text mode.
PS : finally hit 31+ in Syd... i will need a separate AC unit to cool down the 'breathing' of the servers on my desk :P Luckily i'm not in Melb ;)...
B
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