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Date:      Tue, 29 Jan 2013 18:32:03 +0100
From:      Baptiste Daroussin <bapt@freebsd.org>
To:        Ian Smith <smithi@nimnet.asn.au>
Cc:        freebsd-acpi@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: what is required to support a new laptop?
Message-ID:  <20130129173203.GJ43629@ithaqua.etoilebsd.net>
In-Reply-To: <20130130032714.D87033@sola.nimnet.asn.au>
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On Wed, Jan 30, 2013 at 04:29:39AM +1100, Ian Smith wrote:
> On Tue, 29 Jan 2013 10:59:09 -0500, Eitan Adler wrote:
>  > On 29 January 2013 10:50, Ian Smith <smithi@nimnet.asn.au> wrote:
>  > > On Mon, 28 Jan 2013 22:24:29 -0800, Kevin Oberman wrote:
>  > >  > On Mon, Jan 28, 2013 at 11:06 AM, Eitan Adler <lists@eitanadler.c=
om> wrote:
>  > >  > > On 28 January 2013 06:49, Lars Engels <lars.engels@0x20.net> wr=
ote:
>  > >  > >> On Fri, Jan 25, 2013 at 08:55:40AM -0500, Eitan Adler wrote:
>  > >  > >>> Hi all,
>  > >  > >>>
>  > >  > >>> I recently purchased a Lenovo Y530 and attempted to use some =
of the
>  > >  > >>> ACPI features (brightness of backlight, etc.)
>  > >  > >>>
>  > >  > >>> I attempted to load acpi_ibm but devd reported no events (run=
ning with
>  > >  > >>> devd -dD).  What information might be useful to help support =
this
>  > >  > >>> laptop?
>  > >  > >>
>  > >  > >> Did you set dev.acpi_ibm.0.events=3D1?
>  > >  > >
>  > >  > > I don't see this as an option at all.
>  > >  >
>  > >  > Setting dev.acpi_ibm.0.events=3D1 still does not cause the bright=
ness
>  > >  > functions to generate events. Could the initialmask and or availm=
ask
>  > >  > tie into this in some way?
>  > >
>  > > Have we seen 'sysctl dev.acpi_ibm' from this machine yet?  Maybe clu=
es?
>  > > Ideally after kldload acpi_ibm and before any sysctl changes ..
>  >=20
>  > [3462 root@gravity /home/eitan ]#kldload acpi_ibm.ko
>  > [3463 root@gravity /home/eitan ]#sysctl dev.acpi_ibm
>  > sysctl: unknown oid 'dev.acpi_ibm'
>=20
> Ah right.  I don't suppose kldload -v shows anything useful about the=20
> problem loading it?  Ah, never mind, it may be obvious .. lightly=20
> skimming your asl.y530.gz, I recalled folks having to patch something=20
> for Lenovo rather than IBM OEMIDs .. hunt, hunt .. ok, here it is:
>=20
> http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=3Dkern/164538
>=20
>  > I assume this is either missing a device ID and/or not the right drive=
r at all.
>=20
> Hopefully adding the LEN0068 to ibm_ids might allow acpi_ibm to load; if=
=20
> not more digging may be needed for this model.
>=20
>  > I mentioned this was a Lenovo IdeaPad Y530
>=20
> I'm assuming running 9.x?  I didn't see uname output in this thread.
>=20
> Strange; according to that PR this was supposed to have been MFC'd last=
=20
> November, but didn't make it into 9.1-RELEASE sources.  Committer cc'd.
>=20
> cheers, Ian

9.1 was already branched at the time I MFCed it to 9-STABLE so not it didn't
make into 9.1-RELEASE.

regards,
Bapt

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