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Date:      Sat, 13 Feb 2010 06:11:08 -0600
From:      "Sam Fourman Jr." <sfourman@gmail.com>
To:        Daniel Walter <d.walter@0x90.at>
Cc:        freebsd-acpi@freebsd.org, "Sergey V. Dyatko" <sergey.dyatko@gmail.com>
Subject:   Re: need help. asus-a6m+brightness control
Message-ID:  <11167f521002130411g6090684cp62d044caf4b1de9f@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1002131224290.1389@mini-beast>
References:  <20100209233324.6b1ca158@notebook> <11167f521002122357g3aec580bl763f6aaafd3d5a19@mail.gmail.com> <alpine.BSF.2.00.1002131224290.1389@mini-beast>

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On Sat, Feb 13, 2010 at 5:31 AM, Daniel Walter <d.walter@0x90.at> wrote:
> On Sat, 13 Feb 2010, Sam Fourman Jr. wrote:
>
>> On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 3:33 PM, Sergey V. Dyatko
>> <sergey.dyatko@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I have asus-a6m laptop running HEAD. =A0But unfortunately brightness
>>> control not working when I boot with acpi support.
>>>
>>> I made some changes on acpi_asus.c but it doesn't help -
>>> brightness is still not regulated. Good news: the volume keys started
>>> working and now I have /dev/led/wled, /dev/led/mled :)
>>>
>>> result of `acpidump -dt | gzip -c9 >asus_a6m.asl.gz`:
>>> http://tiger.ipfw.ru/files/asus_a6m.asl.gz
>>>
>>> Thanks for any help
>>
>> I saw this acpidump command (dont know anything about ACPI) =A0and
>> thought I would run it on my Asus x83v laptop
>> this notebook runs the following:
>>
>> MiniBSD# uname -a
>> FreeBSD MiniBSD.PuffyBSD.Com 8.0-STABLE FreeBSD 8.0-STABLE #2: Thu Dec
>> 24 21:13:20 CST 2009
>> sfourman@MiniBSD.PuffyBSD.Com:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC =A0amd64
>>
>>
>> here is the output of `acpidump -dt | gzip -c9 >asus_x83v.asl.gz
>>
>> http://www.puffybsd.com/asus_x83v.asl.gz
>>
>> hopefully this will help FreeBSD devlopers better support Asus Laptops
>>
>> I am very willing to help devlopers and root on this notebook is
>> available from public ssh .. just ask
>>
>>
>> Sam Fourman Jr.
>
> Hi,
>
> there is support for brightness control in HEAD since yesterday. So you h=
ave
> two options either switch to CURRENT or wait until acpi_video(4) is MFC'e=
d.

so my asl file has the bits necessary to support the brightness
control committed to HEAD yesterday?

Sam



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