what is required to support a new laptop?

[Ian Smith]

On Tue, 29 Jan 2013 12:46:43 -0500, Eitan Adler wrote:
 > On 29 January 2013 12:29, Ian Smith <smithi at nimnet.asn.au> wrote:
 > > 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
 > 
 > 
 > This is after the install of a patched acpi_ibm
 > [3500 root at gravity /usr/src/sys/modules/acpi ]#kldload -v acpi_ibm
 > Loaded acpi_ibm, id=12

Which looks maybe successful, on the face of it? ..

 > [5507 eitan at gravity (100)% ~ !1!]%sysctl dev.acpi_ibm
 > sysctl: unknown oid 'dev.acpi_ibm'

.. but clearly wasn't.

 > > Hopefully adding the LEN0068 to ibm_ids might allow acpi_ibm to load; if
 > > not more digging may be needed for this model.
 > 
 > I'm not sure what ID this is matching so I don't even know what to
 > look at to try a different one.

Me neither.  My Thinkpad T23 ASL shows this ID at:

                    Device (HKEY)
                    {
                        Name (_HID, EisaId ("IBM0068"))
                        Method (_STA, 0, NotSerialized)
                        {
                            Return (0x0F)
                        }

but I see no obvious corresponding device or other reference in yours.

 > >  > I mentioned this was a Lenovo IdeaPad Y530
 > >
 > > I'm assuming running 9.x?  I didn't see uname output in this thread.
 > 
 > [5505 eitan at gravity (100)% ~ ]%uname -a
 > FreeBSD gravity 9.1-RELEASE FreeBSD 9.1-RELEASE #3 r244942M: Wed Jan
 > 2 08:00:02 EST 2013     root at gravity:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC
 > amd64
 > 
 > The "M" is a patched AR8161 driver and now a patched acpi_ibm driver.

Sorry, that was my one shot; now I'm out of my depth (and off to sleep)

[ Baptiste, fair enough that patch not making it into 9.1 .. and it 
seems there's more to getting this particular model going anyway. ]

cheers, Ian