Story of a laptop user

[Eitan Adler]

On Wed, Feb 5, 2014 at 1:25 PM, Adrian Chadd <adrian at freebsd.org> wrote:
> hi,
>
> Try (if I'm reading your dump correctly):
>
> _SB.PCI0.PEG0.VGA.LCD._BCM
> _SB.PCI0.PEG1.VGA.LCD._BCM
> _SB.PCI0.GFX0.DD02._BCM
>
> .. god I wish we had a way to actually just dump the tree in a useful
> fashion to inspect what objects there are.
>
> Anyway, do the acpi_call hacks to various nodes that have _BCM in them
> and see if setting any of them changes your brightness.

Nothing here changed the screen brightness. If you have another
suggestion i'd be happy to try it.

[10013 root at gravity (100%) /home/eitan ]#acpi_call -vp '
_SB.PCI0.PEG0.VGA.LCD._BCM' -o i
Path:  _SB.PCI0.PEG0.VGA.LCD._BCM
Number of arguments: 0
Status: 4097
Result: 0
[10014 root at gravity (100%) /home/eitan !1!]#acpi_call -vp '
_SB.PCI0.PEG0.VGA.LCD._BCM' -o i -i 1
Path:  _SB.PCI0.PEG0.VGA.LCD._BCM
Number of arguments: 1
Argument 1 type: Integer
Argument 1 value: 1
Status: 4097
Result: 0
[10015 root at gravity (100%) /home/eitan !1!]#acpi_call -vp '
_SB.PCI0.PEG0.VGA.LCD._BCM' -o i -i 10
Path:  _SB.PCI0.PEG0.VGA.LCD._BCM
Number of arguments: 1
Argument 1 type: Integer
Argument 1 value: 10
Status: 4097
Result: 0
[10016 root at gravity (100%) /home/eitan !1!]#acpi_call -vp '
_SB.PCI0.PEG0.VGA.LCD._BCM' -o i -i 0
Path:  _SB.PCI0.PEG0.VGA.LCD._BCM
Number of arguments: 1
Argument 1 type: Integer
Argument 1 value: 0
Status: 4097
Result: 0
[10017 root at gravity (100%) /home/eitan !1!]#dmesg
[299022] ugen0.2: <SAMSUNG> at usbus0 (disconnected)
[10019 root at gravity (100%) /home/eitan ]#acpi_call -vp '
_SB.PCI0.PEG0.VGA.LCD._BCM' -o i -i 0
Path:  _SB.PCI0.PEG0.VGA.LCD._BCM
Number of arguments: 1
Argument 1 type: Integer
Argument 1 value: 0
Status: 4097
Result: 0
[10020 root at gravity (100%) /home/eitan !1!]#dmesg

[10021 root at gravity (100%) /home/eitan ]#acpi_call -vp '
_SB.PCI0.PEG!.VGA.LCD._BCM' -o i -i 0
Path:  _SB.PCI0.PEG!.VGA.LCD._BCM
Number of arguments: 1
Argument 1 type: Integer
Argument 1 value: 0
Status: 4097
Result: 0
[10022 root at gravity (100%) /home/eitan !1!]#acpi_call -vp '
_SB.PCI0.PEG1.VGA.LCD._BCM' -o i -i 0
Path:  _SB.PCI0.PEG1.VGA.LCD._BCM
Number of arguments: 1
Argument 1 type: Integer
Argument 1 value: 0
Status: 4097
Result: 0
[10023 root at gravity (100%) /home/eitan !1!]#acpi_call -vp '
_SB.PCI0.PEG1.VGA.LCD._BCM' -o i -i 0
Path:  _SB.PCI0.PEG1.VGA.LCD._BCM
Number of arguments: 1
Argument 1 type: Integer
Argument 1 value: 0
Status: 4097
Result: 0
[10023 root at gravity (100%) /home/eitan !1!]#acpi_call -vp '
_SB.PCI0.PEG1.VGA.LCD._BCM' -o i -i 10
Path:  _SB.PCI0.PEG1.VGA.LCD._BCM
Number of arguments: 1
Argument 1 type: Integer
Argument 1 value: 10
Status: 4097
Result: 0
[10024 root at gravity (100%) /home/eitan !1!]#acpi_call -vp '
_SB.PCI0.GFX0.DD02._BCM' -o i -i 10
Path:  _SB.PCI0.GFX0.DD02._BCM
Number of arguments: 1
Argument 1 type: Integer
Argument 1 value: 10
Status: 4097
Result: 0
[10025 root at gravity (100%) /home/eitan !1!]#acpi_call -vp
'_SB.PCI0.GFX0.DD02._BCM' -o i -i 10
Path: _SB.PCI0.GFX0.DD02._BCM
Number of arguments: 1
Argument 1 type: Integer
Argument 1 value: 10
Status: 4097
Result: 0
[10026 root at gravity (100%) /home/eitan !1!]#acpi_call -vp
'_SB.PCI0.GFX0.DD02._BCM' -o i -i 100
Path: _SB.PCI0.GFX0.DD02._BCM
Number of arguments: 1
Argument 1 type: Integer
Argument 1 value: 100
Status: 4097
Result: 0
[10027 root at gravity (100%) /home/eitan !1!]#acpi_call -vp
'_SB.PCI0.GFX0.DD02._BCM' -o i -i 0
Path: _SB.PCI0.GFX0.DD02._BCM
Number of arguments: 1
Argument 1 type: Integer
Argument 1 value: 0
Status: 4097
Result: 0
[10028 root at gravity (100%) /home/eitan !1!]#acpi_call -vp
'_SB.PCI0.PEG1.VGA.LCD._BCM' -o i -i 10
Path: _SB.PCI0.PEG1.VGA.LCD._BCM
Number of arguments: 1
Argument 1 type: Integer
Argument 1 value: 10
Status: 4097
Result: 0
[10029 root at gravity (100%) /home/eitan !1!]#acpi_call -vp
'_SB.PCI0.PEG0.VGA.LCD._BCM' -o i -i 10
Path: _SB.PCI0.PEG0.VGA.LCD._BCM
Number of arguments: 1
Argument 1 type: Integer
Argument 1 value: 10
Status: 4097
Result: 0
[10030 root at gravity (100%) /home/eitan !1!]#dmesg

[10031 root at gravity (100%) /home/eitan ]#




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Eitan Adler