From owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Nov 8 14:36:22 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0530916A4CE for ; Mon, 8 Nov 2004 14:36:22 +0000 (GMT) Received: from ox.eicat.ca (ox.eicat.ca [66.96.30.35]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A182243D53 for ; Mon, 8 Nov 2004 14:36:21 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dgilbert@daveg.ca) Received: by ox.eicat.ca (Postfix, from userid 66) id 9407DC7A7; Mon, 8 Nov 2004 09:36:20 -0500 (EST) Received: by canoe.dclg.ca (Postfix, from userid 101) id 276886A95; Mon, 8 Nov 2004 09:36:16 -0500 (EST) From: David Gilbert MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <16783.33888.110035.240813@canoe.dclg.ca> Date: Mon, 8 Nov 2004 09:36:16 -0500 To: outi@bytephobia.de In-Reply-To: <1099751852.16055.5.camel@duality.bytephobia.de> References: <418AF579.6040509@centtech.com> <418B799E.40506@ncsu.edu> <418BF702.5070004@wadham.ox.ac.uk> <1099751852.16055.5.camel@duality.bytephobia.de> X-Mailer: VM 7.17 under 21.5 (beta17) "chayote" (+CVS-20040321) XEmacs Lucid cc: Alan Gerber cc: Eric Anderson cc: Colin Percival cc: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Dell D600 - sleep / acpi in FreeBSD 5.3-STABLE X-BeenThere: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Mobile computing with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 08 Nov 2004 14:36:22 -0000 >>>>> "Patrick" == Patrick Hurrelmann writes: Patrick> On Fri, 2004-11-05 at 22:56, Colin Percival wrote: >> Alan Gerber wrote: > ... on my D600. S1 doesn't turn the > LCD >> off, however, so it still drains significant battery power. It > >> isn't a super-important thing to me, so I've been a little relaxed >> about > saying anything about it. >> >> If you upgrade to 5.3 and load acpi_video.ko, then you can turn off >> the LCD via rc.suspend (and bring it back in rc.resume, of course). >> >> Colin Percival Patrick> Sure, acpi_video.ko works well on a Dell Latitude D600, but Patrick> it won't work in parallel to radeon.ko. Both hook up to the Patrick> same kernel-interfaces (as i understood it hopefully right). Patrick> The module that has been loaded first wins the race and the Patrick> other one will load silently, but will not present Patrick> functionality at all. Patrick> I think this has been on the current list a few times in the Patrick> past it it was said that it won't be trivial to fix. Patrick> Personally i prefer having direct-rendering support. So i Patrick> only load radeon.ko and acpi_video.ko stays on it shelf... I havn't spent time trying this yet, but the nvidia port seems to define WITH_ACPI to compile in ACPI power managements. maybe the radeon driver needs the same magic. Dave. -- ============================================================================ |David Gilbert, Independent Contractor. | Two things can only be | |Mail: dave@daveg.ca | equal if and only if they | |http://daveg.ca | are precisely opposite. | =========================================================GLO================