Dell laptops

[Daniel Eischen]

On Wed, 12 Jul 2006, Anish Mistry wrote:

> On Tuesday 11 July 2006 23:54, Daniel Eischen wrote:
>> On Tue, 11 Jul 2006, Anish Mistry wrote:
>>> On Tuesday 11 July 2006 13:10, Daniel Eischen wrote:
>>>> Also, the Fn (the blue key) can't be used to suspend, control
>>>> volume, switch CRT/LCD, etc, and most importantly enable the
>>>> radio on the wireless card (Fn + F2).  Even if the wpi driver
>>>> works, it's worthless if I can't enable the radio.
>>>
>>> It might simply need an acpi function keys driver for your
>>> system. Would you post an "acpidump -dt" from your system?
>>
>> Here it is:
>>
>>    http://people.freebsd.org/~deischen/e1405.acpi.dump
>>
>> I don't know how to decipher it nor what to do with it.
>
> There doesn't seem to be a function key device.  This probably means
> that pressing the keys just generate keyboard scan codes.
>
> Does acpi_video work for you?  It looks like it should work.

No, not really.  Also, closing the lid will cause a suspend,
but after that it won't ever wakeup no matter what keys I
hit.

# kldload /boot/kernel/acpi_video.ko
found TV(200), detectable by BIOS, head #0
found CRT monitor(100), detectable by BIOS, head #0
found unknown output(400), detectable by BIOS, head #0
found unknown output(300), detectable by BIOS, head #0
acpi_video1: <ACPI video extension> on vgapci1
evaluation of \\_SB_.PCI0.VID2._DOD makes no sense

$ sysctl -a | grep acpi
debug.acpi.do_powerstate: 1
debug.acpi.acpi_ca_version: 0x20051021
debug.acpi.semaphore_debug: 0
debug.acpi.resume_beep: 0
hw.acpi.supported_sleep_state: S3 S4 S5
hw.acpi.power_button_state: S5
hw.acpi.sleep_button_state: S3
hw.acpi.lid_switch_state: NONE
hw.acpi.standby_state: S1
hw.acpi.suspend_state: S3
hw.acpi.sleep_delay: 1
hw.acpi.s4bios: 1
hw.acpi.verbose: 0
hw.acpi.disable_on_reboot: 0
hw.acpi.reset_video: 0
hw.acpi.cpu.cx_supported: C1/1
hw.acpi.cpu.cx_lowest: C1
hw.acpi.cpu.cx_usage: 100.00%
hw.acpi.acline: 0
hw.acpi.battery.life: 98
hw.acpi.battery.time: 253
hw.acpi.battery.state: 1
hw.acpi.battery.units: 1
hw.acpi.battery.info_expire: 5
hw.acpi.thermal.min_runtime: 0
hw.acpi.thermal.polling_rate: 10
hw.acpi.thermal.tz0.temperature: 32.5C
hw.acpi.thermal.tz0.active: -1
hw.acpi.thermal.tz0.passive_cooling: 0
hw.acpi.thermal.tz0.thermal_flags: 0
hw.acpi.thermal.tz0._PSV: -1
hw.acpi.thermal.tz0._HOT: -1
hw.acpi.thermal.tz0._CRT: 105.0C
hw.acpi.thermal.tz0._ACx: -1 -1 -1 -1 -1 -1 -1 -1 -1 -1
hw.acpi.video.tv0.active: 0
hw.acpi.video.crt0.active: 0
hw.acpi.video.out0.active: 0
hw.acpi.video.out1.active: 0
machdep.acpi_timer_freq: 3579545
machdep.acpi_root: 1033104
dev.acpi.0.%desc: DELL M07
dev.acpi.0.%driver: acpi
dev.acpi.0.%parent: nexus0
dev.acpi_sysresource.0.%desc: System Resource
dev.acpi_sysresource.0.%driver: acpi_sysresource
dev.acpi_sysresource.0.%location: handle=\_SB_.MB1_
dev.acpi_sysresource.0.%pnpinfo: _HID=PNP0C01 _UID=1
dev.acpi_sysresource.0.%parent: acpi0
dev.acpi_sysresource.1.%desc: System Resource
dev.acpi_sysresource.1.%driver: acpi_sysresource
dev.acpi_sysresource.1.%location: handle=\_SB_.PCI0.MB2_
dev.acpi_sysresource.1.%pnpinfo: _HID=PNP0C01 _UID=2
dev.acpi_sysresource.1.%parent: acpi0
dev.acpi_sysresource.2.%desc: System Resource
dev.acpi_sysresource.2.%driver: acpi_sysresource
dev.acpi_sysresource.2.%location: handle=\_SB_.PCI0.MB3_
dev.acpi_sysresource.2.%pnpinfo: _HID=PNP0C01 _UID=3
dev.acpi_sysresource.2.%parent: acpi0
dev.acpi_sysresource.3.%desc: System Resource
dev.acpi_sysresource.3.%driver: acpi_sysresource
dev.acpi_sysresource.3.%location: handle=\_SB_.PCI0.ISAB.MB4_
dev.acpi_sysresource.3.%pnpinfo: _HID=PNP0C01 _UID=4
dev.acpi_sysresource.3.%parent: acpi0
dev.acpi_timer.0.%desc: 24-bit timer at 3.579545MHz
dev.acpi_timer.0.%driver: acpi_timer
dev.acpi_timer.0.%location: unknown
dev.acpi_timer.0.%pnpinfo: unknown
dev.acpi_timer.0.%parent: acpi0
dev.pci_link.0.%parent: acpi0
dev.pci_link.1.%parent: acpi0
dev.pci_link.2.%parent: acpi0
dev.pci_link.3.%parent: acpi0
dev.pci_link.4.%parent: acpi0
dev.pci_link.5.%parent: acpi0
dev.pci_link.6.%parent: acpi0
dev.pci_link.7.%parent: acpi0
dev.cpu.0.%parent: acpi0
dev.cpu.1.%parent: acpi0
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
dev.acpi_acad.0.%desc: AC Adapter
dev.acpi_acad.0.%driver: acpi_acad
dev.acpi_acad.0.%location: handle=\_SB_.AC__
dev.acpi_acad.0.%pnpinfo: _HID=ACPI0003 _UID=0
dev.acpi_acad.0.%parent: acpi0
dev.battery.0.%parent: acpi0
dev.acpi_lid.0.%desc: Control Method Lid Switch
dev.acpi_lid.0.%driver: acpi_lid
dev.acpi_lid.0.%location: handle=\_SB_.LID_
dev.acpi_lid.0.%pnpinfo: _HID=PNP0C0D _UID=0
dev.acpi_lid.0.%parent: acpi0
dev.acpi_lid.0.wake: 1
dev.acpi_button.0.%desc: Power Button
dev.acpi_button.0.%driver: acpi_button
dev.acpi_button.0.%location: handle=\_SB_.PBTN
dev.acpi_button.0.%pnpinfo: _HID=PNP0C0C _UID=0
dev.acpi_button.0.%parent: acpi0
dev.acpi_button.0.wake: 1
dev.acpi_button.1.%desc: Sleep Button
dev.acpi_button.1.%driver: acpi_button
dev.acpi_button.1.%location: handle=\_SB_.SBTN
dev.acpi_button.1.%pnpinfo: _HID=PNP0C0E _UID=0
dev.acpi_button.1.%parent: acpi0
dev.pcib.0.%parent: acpi0
dev.acpi_tz.0.%desc: Thermal Zone
dev.acpi_tz.0.%driver: acpi_tz
dev.acpi_tz.0.%location: handle=\_TZ_.THM_
dev.acpi_tz.0.%pnpinfo: _HID=none _UID=0
dev.acpi_tz.0.%parent: acpi0
dev.psmcpnp.0.%parent: acpi0
dev.atkbdc.0.%parent: acpi0
dev.attimer.0.%parent: acpi0
dev.attimer.1.%parent: acpi0
dev.atpic.0.%parent: acpi0
dev.atdma.0.%parent: acpi0
dev.npxisa.0.%parent: acpi0
dev.acpi_video.0.%desc: ACPI video extension
dev.acpi_video.0.%driver: acpi_video
dev.acpi_video.0.%parent: vgapci0
dev.acpi_video.1.%desc: ACPI video extension
dev.acpi_video.1.%driver: acpi_video
dev.acpi_video.1.%parent: vgapci1

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