Again about Dell Inspiron 8x00

[Igor Partola]

John Baldwin wrote:

>On Tuesday 11 January 2005 01:30 pm, Igor Partola wrote:
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>>To be exact it was 2.6.9-gentoo-r13 and 2.6.10 vanilla that worked.
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>>It seems to me that certain functions of the ACPI are better off left
>>alone as overriding them just causes trouble.
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>>For example: when there is no ACPI support in kernel closing the lid
>>switches the display off and Fn+F3 brings me to BIOS settings. Once ACPI
>>is loaded though these functions don't seem to work. So maybe they
>>shouldn't be overridden until it is known that the overriding code in
>>the kernel ACPI works well enough to handle it? Or maybe sysctl could be
>>used to switch between BIOS and kernel ACPI to be in charge of turning
>>off the display and such?
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>Unfortunately, ACPI does not provide such granularity.  It's pretty much an 
>all or nothing switch.
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Ahh well it was just a thought.

I'll try to dig through the linux implementation of S3 and compare it to 
FreeBSD's some time this or next week and see what the difference is.

I know about devd and the lid flags but S3 is much more important for me 
as of right now.

Respect,
Igor

P.S.: I don't think APM is supported by many (if any) Inspiron laptops.