Re: Dell laptops

Eric Anderson <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.os.freebsd.devel.mobile
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 07/13/06 07:29, Daniel Eischen wrote:
> On Wed, 12 Jul 2006, Anish Mistry wrote:
> 
>> On Tuesday 11 July 2006 23:54, Daniel Eischen wrote:
>>> On Tue, 11 Jul 2006, Anish Mistry wrote:
>>>> On Tuesday 11 July 2006 13:10, Daniel Eischen wrote:
>>>>> Also, the Fn (the blue key) can't be used to suspend, control
>>>>> volume, switch CRT/LCD, etc, and most importantly enable the
>>>>> radio on the wireless card (Fn + F2).  Even if the wpi driver
>>>>> works, it's worthless if I can't enable the radio.
>>>>
>>>> It might simply need an acpi function keys driver for your
>>>> system. Would you post an "acpidump -dt" from your system?
>>>
>>> Here it is:
>>>
>>>    http://people.freebsd.org/~deischen/e1405.acpi.dump
>>>
>>> I don't know how to decipher it nor what to do with it.
>>
>> There doesn't seem to be a function key device.  This probably means
>> that pressing the keys just generate keyboard scan codes.
>>
>> Does acpi_video work for you?  It looks like it should work.
> 
> No, not really.  Also, closing the lid will cause a suspend,
> but after that it won't ever wakeup no matter what keys I
> hit.
> 
> # kldload /boot/kernel/acpi_video.ko
> found TV(200), detectable by BIOS, head #0
> found CRT monitor(100), detectable by BIOS, head #0
> found unknown output(400), detectable by BIOS, head #0
> found unknown output(300), detectable by BIOS, head #0
> acpi_video1: <ACPI video extension> on vgapci1
> evaluation of \\_SB_.PCI0.VID2._DOD makes no sense
> 
> $ sysctl -a | grep acpi

[..snip..]
> hw.acpi.video.tv0.active: 0
> hw.acpi.video.crt0.active: 0
> hw.acpi.video.out0.active: 0
> hw.acpi.video.out1.active: 0
[..snip..]


And then if you do:

sysctl hw.acpi.video.out0.active=1
and then
sysctl hw.acpi.video.out0.active=0

Does your screen do something?

Eric



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Eric Anderson        Sr. Systems Administrator        Centaur Technology
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