acpi_video users needed

Nate Lawson nate at root.org
Fri Jul 16 10:02:09 PDT 2004


Nate Lawson wrote:
> takawata at jp.freebsd.org wrote:
> 
>> In message <cone.1089955588.176391.648.1001 at phobos.totalterror.net>, 
>> Niki Denev
>>  wrote:
>>
>>> Randy Bush writes:
>>>
>>>
>>>>> Can you define "properly attaching"? Mine stopped working about 3
>>>>> weeks ago, but the .ko does load. I just don't get any hw.acpi.video
>>>>> sysctls and suspend no longer turns off the display.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> same here, thinkpad t40p, current bios.
>>>>
>>>> randy
>>>>
>>>
>>> here too.
>>> ThinkPad X31, latest BIOS. cvsupped yesterday.
>>>
>>> dmesg, acpidump, devinfo output at : http://totalterror.net/freebsd/
>>
>>  
>> Just curious, Is acpi_video or device button worked for you on your
>> ThinkPad X31?
>> In my machine, device buttons or acpi_video requests or
>> even shutdown, that eventually invokes SMI, will cause the machine
>> hang up. Was it resolved with the latest BIOS?
> 
> There's a recent regression in acpi_pci where we cleaned up the 
> duplicate handles for PCI devices.  Since acpi_video should attach to 
> pci, not acpi, it fails to probe.  The main fix is to finish jhb's 
> vga_pci driver but perhaps I can commit a workaround sometime soon.

I committed a fix just now.

-Nate


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