Date: Sun, 17 Aug 2014 16:38:59 -0400 From: Henry Hu <henry.hu.sh@gmail.com> To: Eric McCorkle <eric@metricspace.net> Cc: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Update on Lenovo W540 Message-ID: <CAEJt7hZ2eB-nrxbFRE=2gQ09_gMaQN-knZud8umBdrCuWzOM2g@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <53F0FE7A.2000301@metricspace.net> References: <53F0FE7A.2000301@metricspace.net>
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On Sun, Aug 17, 2014 at 3:11 PM, Eric McCorkle <eric@metricspace.net> wrote: > I've finally gotten the time to do some more work on the laptop. In the > course of that, a few questions/points came up: > > * The only device not currently being detected (aside from the wireless > card) is some kind of "active management technology" interface. It seems > there was a driver (heci) under development for that at some point. On the > other hand, I did some research on this device, and the "features" seem > rather ominous (remote execution, automated updates, etc), so I'm not sure > I want it enabled... > > * Tethering to a smartphone works (urndis driver), and is my current > workaround for the lack of a wireless driver. > > * The nvidia driver still does not work. I'm working to track down the > cause, but it looks like some sort of ACPI-related issue. > > * The acpi_ibm and acpi_video drivers load, but the keys don't seem to > work. Is there some config file that needs to be written to map the keys > to the right functions? Also, setting the hw.acpi.video. variables doesn't > seem to do anything. > > There are apparently two devices: lcd0 and lcd1 > hw.acpi.video.lcd[01].active are both 0, and attempting to set them to 1 > does nothing. The .brightness, .fullpower, and .economy variables likewise > seem to have no effect. > You may try the patch at https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=190186 and see if it helps. > * The method for changing the X keymap to dvorak seems to have changed. I > used to do this by setting 'Option "XkbLayout" "dvorak"' in > /etc/X11/xorg.conf, but that doesn't seem to be working. Did something > change recently? > > * There seem to be some issues with alsalib (I posted to the -sound > list). Pulseaudio, firefox, and flash player seem to work fine, but > anything based on alsalib doesn't. > > * The USB system continues to report timeout errors on startup and resume, > but they don't seem to have any real effect. > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-mobile > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-mobile-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > -- Cheers, Henry
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