report: FreeBSD on Lenovo Thinkpad X230

[Adrian Chadd]

Ooooo!

On 8 August 2013 00:36, Lars Engels <lars.engels at 0x20.net> wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 07, 2013 at 09:08:46PM -0700, Adrian Chadd wrote:
>> Hiya!
>>
>> So now that I've completed my first round of "is this actually usable
>> as a laptop", I'd like some help chasing down the backlight and
>> suspend/resume issues.
>>
>> Any takers? Pretty please? I'll help make sure iwn(4) works really
>> well if I can get the rest of this works out!
>>
>
> Display brightness can be changed with sysutils/acpi_call:
> http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-acpi/2013-March/008084.html

So this works, but:

* Why doesn't it work in acpi_ibm / acpi_video?
* Every time I change the brightness I get a local APIC error 0x80 ..
why's that?

> BTW: good to know that someome cares about working Thinkpads! :-)

I hate seeing broken shit and I also hate seeing apathy. So..


adrian