From owner-freebsd-acpi@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jan 12 04:02:20 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 4146216A4CE for ; Wed, 12 Jan 2005 04:02:20 +0000 (GMT) Received: from muse.clarku.edu (calliope.clarku.edu [140.232.1.64]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AECCA43D46 for ; Wed, 12 Jan 2005 04:02:19 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from ipartola@pisem.net) Received: from [192.168.0.101] (thalia.clarku.edu [140.232.1.65]) by muse.clarku.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id D2EEB1C952F for ; Tue, 11 Jan 2005 23:02:18 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <41E4A152.4050207@pisem.net> Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2005 23:02:26 -0500 From: Igor Partola User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 (Windows/20041206) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-acpi@FreeBSD.org References: <200501021735.j02HZWAs017587@sana.init-main.com> <200501111302.12876.florian@love2party.net> <41E41B34.2040701@pisem.net> <200501111339.13806.jhb@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <200501111339.13806.jhb@FreeBSD.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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: Wed, 12 Jan 2005 04:02:20 -0000 John Baldwin wrote: >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. > > > Ahh well it was just a thought. I'll try to dig through the linux implementation of S3 and compare it to FreeBSD's some time this or next week and see what the difference is. I know about devd and the lid flags but S3 is much more important for me as of right now. Respect, Igor P.S.: I don't think APM is supported by many (if any) Inspiron laptops.