spic device on sony laptops

[Robert Gogolok]

I have a Sony laptop (PCG-R600HMP). 
With the release of FreeBSD 5.3 and a PXE installation I was able to finally 
run FreeBSD on that machine.

So long everything seems to work nice for my everyday use.

Only the brightness of my display is too dark. Under linux I was able to use 
spicctrl to control the brithgness (using the sonypi device).
I read FreeBSD also supports with the spic driver and in coorparation with  
SJOG (sysutils/sjog) setting the brightness (or for most people).

So I put the following in /boot/loader.conf:
hint.spic.0.at="isa"
hint.spic.0.port="0x10a0"

Result:
spic0: device model type = 2
spic0: <Sony Programmable I/O Controller> at port 0x10a0-0x10a4 on isa0


But SJOG doesn't seem to be happy with that:
can't find spic PCI device

The interal code (or the patches made by the port maintainer ) seem to be 
refer to a PCI device.

Does somebody know more about that issue? (just code some isa calls/code or 
how I could manage this)
Somebody who has a running spic device via isa? To set the brightness....


I asked that question also in the german bsd forum (maybe it's easier to 
understand than my english sentences here:)
https://www.bsdforen.de/showthread.php?t=7701

Greetings,
Robert!
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