need help. asus-a6m+brightness control

[Sam Fourman Jr.]

On Sat, Feb 13, 2010 at 5:31 AM, Daniel Walter <d.walter at 0x90.at> wrote:
> On Sat, 13 Feb 2010, Sam Fourman Jr. wrote:
>
>> On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 3:33 PM, Sergey V. Dyatko
>> <sergey.dyatko at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I have asus-a6m laptop running HEAD.  But unfortunately brightness
>>> control not working when I boot with acpi support.
>>>
>>> I made some changes on acpi_asus.c but it doesn't help -
>>> brightness is still not regulated. Good news: the volume keys started
>>> working and now I have /dev/led/wled, /dev/led/mled :)
>>>
>>> result of `acpidump -dt | gzip -c9 >asus_a6m.asl.gz`:
>>> http://tiger.ipfw.ru/files/asus_a6m.asl.gz
>>>
>>> Thanks for any help
>>
>> I saw this acpidump command (dont know anything about ACPI)  and
>> thought I would run it on my Asus x83v laptop
>> this notebook runs the following:
>>
>> MiniBSD# uname -a
>> FreeBSD MiniBSD.PuffyBSD.Com 8.0-STABLE FreeBSD 8.0-STABLE #2: Thu Dec
>> 24 21:13:20 CST 2009
>> sfourman at MiniBSD.PuffyBSD.Com:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC  amd64
>>
>>
>> here is the output of `acpidump -dt | gzip -c9 >asus_x83v.asl.gz
>>
>> http://www.puffybsd.com/asus_x83v.asl.gz
>>
>> hopefully this will help FreeBSD devlopers better support Asus Laptops
>>
>> I am very willing to help devlopers and root on this notebook is
>> available from public ssh .. just ask
>>
>>
>> Sam Fourman Jr.
>
> Hi,
>
> there is support for brightness control in HEAD since yesterday. So you have
> two options either switch to CURRENT or wait until acpi_video(4) is MFC'ed.

so my asl file has the bits necessary to support the brightness
control committed to HEAD yesterday?

Sam