Support for Asus V6V in acpi_asus(4)

[Jean-Sébastien Pédron]

Philip Paeps wrote:
> On 2005-05-09 11:16:16 (+0200), Jean-Sébastien Pédron <jspedron at club-internet.fr> wrote:
>
>>Philip Paeps wrote:
>>
>>>On 2005-05-05 22:31:15 (+0200), Jean-Sébastien Pédron <jspedron at club-internet.fr> wrote:
>>>
>>>>Especially, the method to get the display state (.disp_get): at boot
>>>>time, hw.acpi.asus.video_output contains out-of-range values, but after
>>>>setting it to an acceptable value, it reports the last set number.
>>>
>>>Would be interesting to know how out of range these values are and where
>>>they come from.  Are the values also out of range when you load acpi_asus
>>>as a module after booting?
>>
>>I always get "257" when the module is loaded at boot time
>>(acpi_asus_load="YES" in /boot/loader.conf). I've just tested with a module
>>loaded only after the system has booted, it's "257" too. I remember I had
>>"758" once but perhaps with another ACPI method.
>
> Could it be that the method you're using for disp_get is just wrong?  We only
> evaluate that on load, after that, we keep track of the value in the softc
> s_disp.

Of course it may be wrong, I never read ASL before. By looking at other
notebook definitions and the ASL from this V6V and an M6N, I just made a
guess :)

> Is your asl online somewhere?  What does the \\_SB.PCI0.P0P1.VGA.GETD method
> return?  Maybe that value needs to be massaged in some way...

The ASL is available here:
http://www.dumbbell.fr/freebsd/v6v/asus_v6v.asl.bz2

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