Dell D600 - sleep / acpi in FreeBSD 5.3-STABLE

[Patrick Hurrelmann]

On Fri, 2004-11-05 at 22:56, Colin Percival wrote:
> Alan Gerber wrote:
> > ... on my D600.  S1 doesn't turn the 
> > LCD off, however, so it still drains significant battery power.  It 
> > isn't a super-important thing to me, so I've been a little relaxed about 
> > saying anything about it.
> 
> If you upgrade to 5.3 and load acpi_video.ko, then you can turn off the
> LCD via rc.suspend (and bring it back in rc.resume, of course).
> 
> Colin Percival

Sure, acpi_video.ko works well on a Dell Latitude D600, but it won't
work in parallel to radeon.ko. Both hook up to the same
kernel-interfaces (as i understood it hopefully right).
The module that has been loaded first wins the race and the other one
will load silently, but will not present functionality at all.

I think this has been on the current list a few times in the past it it
was said that it won't be trivial to fix.

Personally i prefer having direct-rendering support. So i only load
radeon.ko and acpi_video.ko stays on it shelf...

Patrick
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