Fixing X220 Video The Right Way

Adrian Chadd adrian at freebsd.org
Fri Aug 9 08:37:53 UTC 2013


Hi!

Hm, resurrecting this thread, I'll try this on my X230 tomorrow and
see if it makes the (non-xorg, console only) video work on resume.

If it does, what will it take to automatically determine that this
kind of work-around is needed?

Thanks!


-adrian


On 14 June 2013 16:00, matt <sendtomatt at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 06/14/13 08:39, John Baldwin wrote:
>
>> I got this to work by using 4 backslashes.  At that point the patch
>> worked. (I recently got access to an X220.)  I get a local APIC
>> error each time I adjust the brightness though (probably the BIOS
>> is doing something wonky).
>>
>
>
> That's awesome! I've asked -CURRENT about the
>
> I tried single quotes, double quotes, double backslash, and I meant to
> try ascii escapes next :)
>
> I'm glad you got this working, it makes the X220 (and probably other
> laptops with similar issues) more usable on FreeBSD.
>
> I'll have to bring my X220 back up to current and start looking at
> sleep issues next.
>
> Matt


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