acpi_sony - no powerd, no man page!

Vladimir Grebenschikov vova at fbsd.ru
Mon Sep 12 23:41:32 PDT 2005


В вс, 11/09/2005 в 12:20 +0200, Christian Brueffer пишет:
> On Sun, Sep 11, 2005 at 12:42:17AM +0200, Emanuel Strobl wrote:
> > Hello,
> > 
> > I just installed BETA4 on my notebook and was curious about the acpi_sony 
> > driver, but all I can see is that powerd soesn't work anymoder (if I call 
> > powerd -a min dev.cpu.0.freq is still 800 wher it was 62 without acpi_sony 
> > compiled in) and that I can set LCD brightness :) *bright_smile*
> > But what does ctr, pcr, wdp and cdp mean?
> > A short man page was wonderful!
> > And is it known/intended that cpufreq doesn't work with acpi_sony?

I have powerd worked for me without any problems (up to 211 Mhz)
with acpi_sony

# sysctl dev.acpi_sony
dev.acpi_sony.0.brightness: 8
dev.acpi_sony.0.ctr: 0
dev.acpi_sony.0.pcr: 0
dev.acpi_sony.0.wdp: 1281
dev.acpi_sony.0.cdp: 1
dev.acpi_sony.0.%desc: Sony notebook controller
dev.acpi_sony.0.%driver: acpi_sony
dev.acpi_sony.0.%location: handle=\_SB_.PCI0.LPCB.SNC_
dev.acpi_sony.0.%pnpinfo: _HID=SNY5001 _UID=0
dev.acpi_sony.0.%parent: acpi0
# /etc/rc.d/powerd status
powerd is running as pid 583.
# grep powerd /etc/rc.conf
powerd_enable="YES"     # Run powerd to lower our power usage.
# sysctl dev.cpu dev.acpi_throttle 
dev.cpu.0.%desc: ACPI CPU
dev.cpu.0.%driver: cpu
dev.cpu.0.%location: handle=\_PR_.CPU0
dev.cpu.0.%pnpinfo: _HID=none _UID=0
dev.cpu.0.%parent: acpi0
dev.cpu.0.freq: 422
dev.cpu.0.freq_levels: 1689/-1 1477/-1 1266/-1 1055/-1 844/-1 633/-1 422/-1 211/-1
dev.acpi_throttle.0.%desc: ACPI CPU Throttling
dev.acpi_throttle.0.%driver: acpi_throttle
dev.acpi_throttle.0.%parent: cpu0
dev.acpi_throttle.0.freq_settings: 10000/-1 8750/-1 7500/-1 6250/-1 5000/-1 3750/-1 2500/-1 1250/-1
#


> I wrote a small manpage some time ago (more of a dummy kind), but haven't
> committed it yet because it's not that useful...
> 
> The meanings of ctr, pcr, wdp and cdp are unknown. takawata@, who wrote
> the driver, got his information solely from the DSDT of the BIOS.  So,
> he doesn't know the meaning either :-)

Probably some info can be get from sysutils/sjog port, but not much.

> - Christian
> 
-- 
Vladimir B. Grebenschikov
vova at fbsd.ru


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