From owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Nov 17 12:52:01 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [8.8.178.115]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id C8848EA2 for ; Mon, 17 Nov 2014 12:52:01 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-wi0-x232.google.com (mail-wi0-x232.google.com [IPv6:2a00:1450:400c:c05::232]) (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 58166FF1 for ; Mon, 17 Nov 2014 12:52:01 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-wi0-f178.google.com with SMTP id hi2so433402wib.5 for ; Mon, 17 Nov 2014 04:51:59 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=from:to:subject:date:message-id:user-agent:mime-version :content-transfer-encoding:content-type; bh=ZT5QhqTIKtnHUdWqyc0aNK/Rq1IzSKjhmDVtWYgG+aA=; b=uaoI33X8YIqpE7jPF+lKg/s2/heD0UeAKo8Nwk7LHSSha4rSCFxLLOk8VarOINGhDv UwgNfPp8r8XcKGvyF03L8mT9tT7ZoDXaATfDuiAlJjmQzwLFi3xnaxzqBEpymf7GBvA1 PhtgfLuo2YnIp26YHNKOcKstfSobhkh+b4gDoq/VWXKleZAe09hS+z5IQBMe33be2QCU SzpXdnKwCrxc4WzD2pzqr4CQ1KTiJuLR+ZKUWXzRs2xSYOVpnm36oYQcaDXn7wOeXWQm 3+ijuLwheESAqoRttVI8ke54RtFR/CSYBn3OieqwyDoMFeHeqdrNf/JEOeDP81Mdh5/r uxsQ== X-Received: by 10.180.211.239 with SMTP id nf15mr27725878wic.9.1416228719691; Mon, 17 Nov 2014 04:51:59 -0800 (PST) Received: from chrysaor.localnet (p54999991.dip0.t-ipconnect.de. [84.153.153.145]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPSA id bc1sm15132389wib.16.2014.11.17.04.51.58 for (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Mon, 17 Nov 2014 04:51:59 -0800 (PST) From: Lutz Bichler X-Google-Original-From: Lutz Bichler To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: FreeBSD on Asus UX31A Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2014 13:53:35 +0100 Message-ID: <1850323.OabH7XK7zj@chrysaor> User-Agent: KMail/4.14.2 (FreeBSD/11.0-CURRENT; KDE/4.14.2; amd64; ; ) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" 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: Mon, 17 Nov 2014 12:52:02 -0000 Hi, after reading the summaries of Asus UX31E and UX32VD i did some testing of FreeBSD on an Asus UX31A: Hardware -------------- Intel Ivybridge CPU + graphics Centrino(R) Advanced-N 6235 WiFi USB 2.0 + 3.0 Realtek Cardreader (Product-Id 0x139) Software ------------- - FreeBSD-CURRENT (svn274583) - acpi_asus_wmi & acpi_asus loaded - xorg-7.7 - xorg-server-1.16.1 - Mesa 10.3.2 - xf86-video-intel-2.99.916 Results ---------- - F1: Suspend function key works - F2: WiFi function key does not work - F3/F4: Keyboard brightness control works - F5/F6: Display brightness control does not work - F7: Display on/off works - F8: not tested - F9: not tested - F10: Volume on/off does not work - F11/F12: Volume control works - Suspending works - Resuming: - i915 only - no display after resume - acpi_video loaded before i915kms: - no display after resume - acpi_video loaded after i915kms - display coming back, but display brightness after resume is lower although hw.acpi.video.lcd0.brightness reports the same value - Display brightness control partly works - sysctl hw.acpi.video.lcd0.brightness=X works - function key changes the brightness, but only allows to switch between brightness levels 1 and 2. - changing the brightness level from 100 to 30 reduces the power consumpion from 11.5mW to 8.8mW. - with i915.7 patch (http://kib.kiev.ua/kib/drm/i915.7.patch) - display coming back (with and without acpi_video) - Display brightness control does not work (neither with nor without acpi_video) - WiFi (Intel 6235): works - CardReader (Realtek Product Id 0x139): does not work Open questions ----------------------- - How to automatically load acpi_video after i915kms? - How to enable presetting the display brightness? - How to enable a smooth function key based brightness setting? - Is there any hope for the card reader? - There have been several mailing list threads in the past but it seems they all ended up without conclusion. Regards, Lutz