Call for testers acpi_dell

Jung-uk Kim jkim at FreeBSD.org
Fri Feb 12 18:21:14 UTC 2010


On Friday 12 February 2010 12:48 pm, Daniel Walter wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I've written a small kernel driver to support Dell Mini 1011 (aka
> Dell Mini 10v) Brightness Controll Buttons. Since I do not have any
> other Dell Notebooks, I'd like you to test this module on other
> Dell Notebooks as well.
>
> This driver is in an early stage, but future releases will also
> support the rfkill switch and CRT switch.
>
> Currently following features are implemented:
> * Increase / Decrease Brightness
> * Change brightness if AC is connected / disconnected
>
> TODO:
> * Add CRT Support
> * Add Sysctl to define brightness levels for eco and ac
> powerprofile * Add Support for RF-Kill Switch
>
> Any suggestions are welcome

I just quickly glanced at it but I failed see anything quite specific 
to Dell laptops except for "TODO: Add support for RF-Kill Switch".  
acpi_video(4) should be able to do what you want.  Am I missing 
something here?

Jung-uk Kim


More information about the freebsd-acpi mailing list