Dual video card notebook: no X11 at all

Kevin Oberman kob6558 at gmail.com
Fri Jul 13 22:20:16 UTC 2012


On Fri, Jul 13, 2012 at 5:11 AM, SicoSico <resuscitated_wael at hotmail.com> wrote:
> DragonFlyBSD has the module
> http://leaf.dragonflybsd.org/cgi/web-man?command=acpi_thinkpad&section=4
> acpi_thinkpad , I am not sure if it is new enough or if it works with my
> ideapad y570.
>
> intel driver is cool to have, I wish I could use nvidia driver though.
>
> Brightness control is really important to me, max brightness is hurting my
> eyes!
>
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Again, I have not tried the patched DSDT, but to have a chance to
work, you need to edit acpi_ibm to add the LEN0068 ID. Replace the
line:
static char    *ibm_ids[] = {"IBM0068", NULL};
with
static char    *ibm_ids[] = {"IBM0068", "LEN0068", NULL};

You must also load the acpi_video module.
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R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer
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