what is required to support a new laptop?

[Kevin Oberman]

On Mon, Jan 28, 2013 at 11:06 AM, Eitan Adler <lists at eitanadler.com> wrote:
> On 28 January 2013 06:49, Lars Engels <lars.engels at 0x20.net> wrote:
>> On Fri, Jan 25, 2013 at 08:55:40AM -0500, Eitan Adler wrote:
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> I recently purchased a Lenovo Y530 and attempted to use some of the
>>> ACPI features (brightness of backlight, etc.)
>>>
>>> I attempted to load acpi_ibm but devd reported no events (running with
>>> devd -dD).  What information might be useful to help support this
>>> laptop?
>>
>> Did you set dev.acpi_ibm.0.events=1?
>
> I don't see this as an option at all.

Setting dev.acpi_ibm.0.events=1 still does not cause the brightness
functions to generate events. Could the initialmask and or availmask
tie into this in some way?
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R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer
E-mail: kob6558 at gmail.com