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Date:      Thu, 14 Dec 2006 15:43:44 +0800
From:      Rong-En Fan <rafan@freebsd.org>
To:        Markus Brueffer <markus@freebsd.org>
Cc:        freebsd-acpi@freebsd.org, Rong-En Fan <rafan@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: acpi_ibm(4) and amd64
Message-ID:  <20061214074344.GC93983@svm.csie.ntu.edu.tw>
In-Reply-To: <200612130327.47809.markus@freebsd.org>
References:  <20061212165145.GA59094@svm.csie.ntu.edu.tw> <200612130327.47809.markus@freebsd.org>

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On Wed, Dec 13, 2006 at 03:27:43AM +0100, Markus Brueffer wrote:
> On Tuesday 12 December 2006 17:51, Rong-En Fan wrote:
> > It seems that it can not get the brightness level. I put my ASL at
> >
> > http://people.freebsd.org/~rafan/x60-1706b69.asl
> >
> > for anyone interested.
>=20
> Everything looks right DSDT wise, the EC offset for brightness didn't cha=
nge.
> I did a quick read through the linux-thinkpad ml archives and it seems th=
at=20
> this is a BIOS related problem. Older versions work, but current ones sho=
w=20
> this problem. What BIOS and EC versions do you have installed?
>=20
> Btw: acpi_video(4) should add a brightness sysctl for the lcd (judging fr=
om=20
> your DSDT). How does this one behave? Does writing to the brightness sysc=
tl=20
> have any effect (acpi_ibm(4) and acpi_video(4))?

write to dev.acpi_ibm.0.lcd_brightness work, read not.
read/write hw.acpi.video.lcd0.brightness works well.

But the levels from acpi_video(4) is a bit weird:

hw.acpi.video.lcd0.brightness: 30
hw.acpi.video.lcd0.levels: 100 30 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100

Or, is this normal?

> > 1) can we safely use acpi_ibm(4) on amd64
>=20
> No objections here.
>=20
> Markus
>=20
> --=20
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