acpi_sony - no powerd, no man page!

[Christian Brueffer]

On Sun, Sep 11, 2005 at 12:42:17AM +0200, Emanuel Strobl wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I just installed BETA4 on my notebook and was curious about the acpi_sony 
> driver, but all I can see is that powerd soesn't work anymoder (if I call 
> powerd -a min dev.cpu.0.freq is still 800 wher it was 62 without acpi_sony 
> compiled in) and that I can set LCD brightness :) *bright_smile*
> But what does ctr, pcr, wdp and cdp mean?
> A short man page was wonderful!
> And is it known/intended that cpufreq doesn't work with acpi_sony?
> 

I wrote a small manpage some time ago (more of a dummy kind), but haven't
committed it yet because it's not that useful...

The meanings of ctr, pcr, wdp and cdp are unknown. takawata@, who wrote
the driver, got his information solely from the DSDT of the BIOS.  So,
he doesn't know the meaning either :-)

- Christian

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