Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2005 13:39:13 -0500 From: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> To: freebsd-acpi@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Again about Dell Inspiron 8x00 Message-ID: <200501111339.13806.jhb@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <41E41B34.2040701@pisem.net> References: <200501021735.j02HZWAs017587@sana.init-main.com> <200501111302.12876.florian@love2party.net> <41E41B34.2040701@pisem.net>
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On Tuesday 11 January 2005 01:30 pm, Igor Partola wrote: > To be exact it was 2.6.9-gentoo-r13 and 2.6.10 vanilla that worked. > > It seems to me that certain functions of the ACPI are better off left > alone as overriding them just causes trouble. > > For example: when there is no ACPI support in kernel closing the lid > switches the display off and Fn+F3 brings me to BIOS settings. Once ACPI > is loaded though these functions don't seem to work. So maybe they > shouldn't be overridden until it is known that the overriding code in > the kernel ACPI works well enough to handle it? Or maybe sysctl could be > used to switch between BIOS and kernel ACPI to be in charge of turning > off the display and such? Unfortunately, ACPI does not provide such granularity. It's pretty much an all or nothing switch. -- John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> <>< http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ "Power Users Use the Power to Serve" = http://www.FreeBSD.org
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