DRI on Radeon 9500 Mobile

[Norberto Meijome]

On Sun, 28 May 2006 15:02:39 +0200
Fabian Keil <freebsd-listen at fabiankeil.de> wrote:

> Norberto Meijome <freebsd at meijome.net> wrote:
> 
> > On Sun, 28 May 2006 14:36:59 +0200
> > Fabian Keil <freebsd-listen at fabiankeil.de> wrote:
> > 
> > > > Should I have acpi_video loaded if I already load acpi_ibm ?  _ibm
> > > > seems to provide what _video does (from a quick scan to _video's
> > > > manpage)
> > > 
> > > Maybe your scan was a little to quick. They have quite
> > > different features and the same goes for their man pages. 
> > 
> > touché  :) but the _ibm allows me to control the brightness of
> > lcd,etc... so... what do I really gain by having _video loaded.?
> 
> You gain a few additional sysctls to play with: 
> 
> fk at TP51 ~ $sysctl hw.acpi.video
> hw.acpi.video.lcd0.active: 1
> hw.acpi.video.crt0.active: 0
> hw.acpi.video.tv0.active: 0
> hw.acpi.video.out0.active: 0

gotcha

> 
> If you need them is another question, at least for
> me the defaults are ok and I never changed them.

will give it a try - would be useful if they are RW

> 
> I always assumed acpi_video was somehow needed to get
> suspend/resume working, but at least the man page
> doesn't back up this assumption.
> 
> Fabian

well, i havent needed it when using acpi_ibm (or acpi_toshiba for that matter).

thanks for the info,
Beto