Date: Mon, 8 Nov 2004 09:36:16 -0500 From: David Gilbert <dgilbert@dclg.ca> To: outi@bytephobia.de Cc: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Dell D600 - sleep / acpi in FreeBSD 5.3-STABLE Message-ID: <16783.33888.110035.240813@canoe.dclg.ca> 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>
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>>>>> "Patrick" == Patrick Hurrelmann <outi@bytephobia.de> 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================
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