Call for testers: New acpi_ibm driver

[Markus Brueffer]

On Tuesday 31 May 2005 11:25, Rong-En Fan wrote:
> On Mon, May 30, 2005 at 06:57:09PM +0200, Markus Brueffer wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I'm looking for testers for a mostly rewritten and enhanced version of
> > the acpi_ibm (ACPI Thinkpad Extras) driver.
> >
> > You can find it along with a first draft of the new manpage at:
> >
> > http://people.freebsd.org/~markus/ibm/
> >
> > If you are running -CURRENT, simply replace the former driver with the
> > new one in sys/dev/acpi_support and rebuild it. (sorry, no patch for
> > 5.x for now).
> >
> > Please mail me on failure and success and include the output of
> > # sysctl hw.acpi.ibm
>
> hw.acpi.ibm.initialmask: 2060
> hw.acpi.ibm.availmask: 16777215
> hw.acpi.ibm.events: 0
> hw.acpi.ibm.eventmask: 2060
> hw.acpi.ibm.hotkey: 2432
> hw.acpi.ibm.lcd_brightness: 5
> hw.acpi.ibm.volume: 6
> hw.acpi.ibm.mute: 0
> hw.acpi.ibm.thinklight: 0
> hw.acpi.ibm.bluetooth: 0
> hw.acpi.ibm.wlan: 0
> hw.acpi.ibm.fan_rpm: 3516
> hw.acpi.ibm.fan_status: 1
> hw.acpi.ibm.thermal: 61 -1 55 39 41 -1 27 -1
>
> It's few days' ago -current on IBM X31-IDV. Works good.
> I tried write to lcd_brightness, volume, thinklight
> and it works ! Thanks.

Great, thanks for testing!

> But, seems that wlan's value
> is not correct. For example, after boot, wlan=1.
> I ifconfig ath0 up, sysctl wlan=0, wireless stills
> works. Does it supposed to work in that way?

Yes, in theory it should work that way. I have copied this part from the old 
driver, but couldn't get it to work on my T41p. Now I'm still waiting for a 
report that reports success on that area. I'll probably set it to read-only 
until I figure out another way to set it (if there is any).

> > - support for reading up to 8 thermal sensors
>
> Is there any reference that describes which sensor
> monitors what part of ThinkPad?

Not that I know of, since this might vary from model to model. But to quote 
the README of the linux driver:

Thomas Gruber took his R51 apart and traced all six active sensors in
his laptop (the location of sensors may vary on other models):

1:  CPU
2:  Mini PCI Module
3:  HDD
4:  GPU
5:  Battery
6:  N/A
7:  Battery
8:  N/A

Markus

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