Re: Dell D600 - sleep / acpi in FreeBSD 5.3-STABLE
David Gilbert <[email protected]>
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>>>>> "Patrick" == Patrick Hurrelmann <[email protected]> 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: [email protected] | equal if and only if they | |http://daveg.ca | are precisely opposite. | =========================================================GLO================ _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-mobile To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"