From owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Aug 17 20:39:40 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id E918FEE2 for ; Sun, 17 Aug 2014 20:39:39 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-oi0-x22a.google.com (mail-oi0-x22a.google.com [IPv6:2607:f8b0:4003:c06::22a]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (Client CN "smtp.gmail.com", Issuer "Google Internet Authority G2" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id B288B2D5F for ; Sun, 17 Aug 2014 20:39:39 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-oi0-f42.google.com with SMTP id a3so3054247oib.1 for ; Sun, 17 Aug 2014 13:39:39 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date:message-id:subject:to :cc:content-type; bh=/eHIViCmnImZTFTtiZUdhSO5phRAZsE2wOJx+q8kXJI=; b=vCr3fqK+FjvO7+1B0VKTObPh+i9JtjOZQVw04J/yhYOWWYap9AW17O/GQC4ryIq90T EVh/sg6OK48VD/rdt3FwkclZf6ihhDZ4h5pOLtZexDSRfRlmRkOMnc2q8xnU4h1UUvOm r+ifll0MyjkJqBI/t9Ula3OH7JJAiLEPU6h9k+cPDKwIHx7+uKGhxNEM08zkibjBj8H7 bSxzG5YEU5a7+N2dih6nnbW1vePTlDlG0MQcDXwxiNlH5tgrl3E3XkipPCCjxIjT4Ogx cJ94lNspvogabuKhtBZRdDjf1DH7+Lqrasj1cj5i6ivYSzbfwMw3Sx4za1KtWlZudNjW lYaA== X-Received: by 10.182.236.162 with SMTP id uv2mr33289907obc.12.1408307979090; Sun, 17 Aug 2014 13:39:39 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.76.183.73 with HTTP; Sun, 17 Aug 2014 13:38:59 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <53F0FE7A.2000301@metricspace.net> References: <53F0FE7A.2000301@metricspace.net> From: Henry Hu Date: Sun, 17 Aug 2014 16:38:59 -0400 Message-ID: Subject: Re: Update on Lenovo W540 To: Eric McCorkle Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.18-1 Cc: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org X-BeenThere: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18-1 Precedence: list List-Id: Mobile computing with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 17 Aug 2014 20:39:40 -0000 On Sun, Aug 17, 2014 at 3:11 PM, Eric McCorkle 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