S3 on a Sony VGN-A290

[Josef Karthauser]

On Fri, Dec 10, 2004 at 01:10:55PM -0500, Anish Mistry wrote:
> > Interesting.
> >
> > I'm running RELENG_5 on this machine, is there any way that I could test
> > any code?  In particular the acpi_video DPMS patch you mention; is that
> > compatible with 5?
> >
> > I've got the following ACPI modules loaded:
> >
> >  4    1 0xc09f3000 4d98     acpi_video.ko
> >  5   16 0xc09f8000 53828    acpi.ko
> >  6    1 0xc0a4c000 25b4     acpi_sony.ko
> >
> > The acpi_sony one I (trivially) ported to 5 myself.
> >
> http://www.freebsd.org/~jhb/patches/acpi_video_dpms.patch
> 
> It applies to the acpi_video module.
>

It doesn't help me unfortunately.  This sony machine doesn't appear to
bind to acpi_video.  I've had a bit of success using acpi_sony (from
-current) but it doesn't shut the screen (or other devices) down
properly. :(

Joe
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