what is required to support a new laptop?

[Baptiste Daroussin]

On Wed, Jan 30, 2013 at 04:29:39AM +1100, Ian Smith wrote:
> On Tue, 29 Jan 2013 10:59:09 -0500, Eitan Adler wrote:
>  > 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'
> 
> Ah right.  I don't suppose kldload -v shows anything useful about the 
> problem loading it?  Ah, never mind, it may be obvious .. lightly 
> skimming your asl.y530.gz, I recalled folks having to patch something 
> for Lenovo rather than IBM OEMIDs .. hunt, hunt .. ok, here it is:
> 
> http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=kern/164538
> 
>  > I assume this is either missing a device ID and/or not the right driver at all.
> 
> Hopefully adding the LEN0068 to ibm_ids might allow acpi_ibm to load; if 
> not more digging may be needed for this model.
> 
>  > I mentioned this was a Lenovo IdeaPad Y530
> 
> I'm assuming running 9.x?  I didn't see uname output in this thread.
> 
> Strange; according to that PR this was supposed to have been MFC'd last 
> November, but didn't make it into 9.1-RELEASE sources.  Committer cc'd.
> 
> cheers, Ian

9.1 was already branched at the time I MFCed it to 9-STABLE so not it didn't
make into 9.1-RELEASE.

regards,
Bapt
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