From owner-freebsd-acpi@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jan 11 22:10:48 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-acpi@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BC3CB16A561 for ; Tue, 11 Jan 2005 22:10:47 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mail1.speakeasy.net (mail1.speakeasy.net [216.254.0.201]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 04F1443D2D for ; Tue, 11 Jan 2005 22:10:47 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jhb@FreeBSD.org) Received: (qmail 6737 invoked from network); 11 Jan 2005 22:10:46 -0000 Received: from dsl027-160-063.atl1.dsl.speakeasy.net (HELO server.baldwin.cx) ([216.27.160.63]) (envelope-sender ) encrypted SMTP for ; 11 Jan 2005 22:10:45 -0000 Received: from [10.50.41.243] (gw1.twc.weather.com [216.133.140.1]) (authenticated bits=0) by server.baldwin.cx (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id j0BMAfBi020663; Tue, 11 Jan 2005 17:10:41 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from jhb@FreeBSD.org) From: John Baldwin To: freebsd-acpi@FreeBSD.org Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2005 13:39:13 -0500 User-Agent: KMail/1.6.2 References: <200501021735.j02HZWAs017587@sana.init-main.com> <200501111302.12876.florian@love2party.net> <41E41B34.2040701@pisem.net> In-Reply-To: <41E41B34.2040701@pisem.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200501111339.13806.jhb@FreeBSD.org> X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.63 (2004-01-11) on server.baldwin.cx Subject: Re: Again about Dell Inspiron 8x00 X-BeenThere: freebsd-acpi@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: ACPI and power management development List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2005 22:10:48 -0000 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 <>< http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ "Power Users Use the Power to Serve" = http://www.FreeBSD.org