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

[Colin Faber]

Hi John,

I've discovered that if I omit acpi acpi_video and drm from my kernel, 
and load them later on as modules the OID's do appear correctly.


John Baldwin wrote:
> On Tuesday 20 June 2006 21:25, 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.
>>     
>
>
> drm(4) is using the device node that acpi_video(4) wants to use.  You can 
> either update to -CURRENT where this is fixed, or you can turn off drm(4) so 
> you can use acpi_video(4).
>
>