Dell laptops

[Mark Andrews]

> > What are the current problems, if any, on current Dell laptops have
> > with FreeBSD?
> 
> Latitude D610
> 
> Working:  bge, x.org, audio.
> 
> Broken: apm, acpi (none of the buttons work -- not even the lid-close 
> button) (well, the screen brightness controls work), no acpi video dpms, 
> battery life sucks (just over an hour), onboard (1370?) wireless not seen 
> (DWL-G650 in Cardbus slot works fine), no suspend.
> 
> Untested: dock, external video.
> 
> --lyndon
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	This should help w/ the lid button.

	Mark

The following from Mark Diekhans <markd at kermodei.com> helped.

enable acpi_video in loader.conf: /boot/loader.conf with:
acpi_video_load="YES"

add this to /etc/devd.conf:

# lid open/close events
notify 10 {
        match "system"          "ACPI";
        match "subsystem"       "Lid";
        action "/etc/rc.lid $notify";
};

/etc/rc.lid is:

#!/bin/sh
# deal with lid switch events

if [ x$1 = x0x00 ]; then
        logger -t Lid Closed at `date`
        sysctl hw.acpi.video.out0.active=0
else
        logger -t Lid Opened at `date`
        sysctl hw.acpi.video.out0.active=1
fi

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