HDA driver test on Dell Inspirion 1300

[Norberto Meijome]

On Thu, 14 Sep 2006 12:52:15 +0200
Markus Brueffer <markus at freebsd.org> wrote:

> On Thursday 14 September 2006 04:19, Norberto Meijome wrote:
> > On Thu, 14 Sep 2006 03:41:58 +0200
> >
> > Markus Brueffer <markus at freebsd.org> wrote:
> > > > usually the fn-keys issue ACPI events for devd to handle. On my
> > > > Thinkpad, acpi_ibm takes care of it. There are relevant sysctl which,
> > > > interestingly enough, dont seem to get updated ...
> > >
> > > May I ask which model you have and which sysctls don't update correctly?
> >
> > Thinkpad Z60M, using acpi and acpi_ibm.
> >
> > dev.acpi_ibm.0.lcd_brightness doesn't change when I use Fn-Home (increase
> > brightness) or fn-End (decrease). Writing to the sysctl DOES change the
> > brightness though. Same behaviour with dev.acpi_ibm.0.events either on 0 or
> > 1
> 
> Wow, that's odd. Is there a newer BIOS or embedded controller firmware 
> available?

glad to see i'm not the only that finds it odd.

yes, there is 1 update available, but i havent had a chance to install yet...
mainly because i've managed to get locked out of the supervisor access to
bios... on one boot it went into the 'ThinkVantage restore mode' or security
something, i told it to get out... but supervisor password is now on... Enter
(i.e., blank password) gives me user access to bios... thinking of flushing the
bios altogether.... WDYT?

asl on its way in another email.
cheers,
B
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