ACPI hw.acpi.video.* OID's not showing up witth acpi_video on Dell D610

[Eric Anderson]

Colin Faber wrote:
> Hello Guys,
> 
> First, sorry for the cross posting, I'm not sure if someone in mobile or 
> acpi can help me out with this one..
> 
> In Any event, I'm running a Dell Latitude D610 with FreeBSD 6.1-STABLE. 
> The last  cvsup on my source tree was Jun 19th.
> 
> The problem I'm having is, for the life of me I can't seem to get 
> hw.acpi.video OID entries to show up. I've followed every bit of advice 
> I could  find on the mailing lists and usenet postings.
> 
> I've compiled and installed acpi_video,  ACPI does work and events are 
> trapped.
> 
> Below is the dmesg output from verbose boot:

[..snip..]

> I haven't had a chance to check of acpi_video in current has been 
> updated, and my perference is to not have to update to -CURRENT however 
> I'm willing to try anyones suggestions at this point.
> 
> -cf

Just for your own sanity, I had a D610, and it did in fact work for me.

Here's a dmesg from it (when I had it):
http://www.googlebit.com/freebsd/archive/dmesg.txt.200601260617
and kernel config:
http://www.googlebit.com/freebsd/archive/kernelconfig.200601260617


Eric


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