what is required to support a new laptop?

[Eitan Adler]

On 29 January 2013 10:50, Ian Smith <smithi at nimnet.asn.au> wrote:
> On Mon, 28 Jan 2013 22:24:29 -0800, Kevin Oberman wrote:
>  > 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?
>
> Have we seen 'sysctl dev.acpi_ibm' from this machine yet?  Maybe clues?
> Ideally after kldload acpi_ibm and before any sysctl changes ..

[3462 root at gravity /home/eitan ]#kldload acpi_ibm.ko
[3463 root at gravity /home/eitan ]#sysctl dev.acpi_ibm
sysctl: unknown oid 'dev.acpi_ibm'

I assume this is either missing a device ID and/or not the right driver at all.


I mentioned this was a Lenovo IdeaPad Y530


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Eitan Adler