what is required to support a new laptop?

Eitan Adler lists at eitanadler.com
Mon Feb 25 22:28:17 UTC 2013


On 24 February 2013 21:41, matt <sendtomatt at gmail.com> wrote:
> Next step is to call _BCL then _BCM at every location in the DSDT and
> see if any of them work.
> It's probable that one of them does...


Tried randomly guessing path names, but nothing resulted in anything
but "Unknown object type '0'"

I don't know how to read the ASL, what other paths are likely to work?

> Lenovo seems to like playing hide the correct acpi methods or something.

Heh.  I could try to add support for this laptop to acpi_ibm or
acpi_video (wherever is a appropriate) once this is figured out.


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Eitan Adler


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