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Date:      Mon, 29 May 2006 08:56:36 +1000
From:      Norberto Meijome <freebsd@meijome.net>
To:        Fabian Keil <freebsd-listen@fabiankeil.de>
Cc:        mobile@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: DRI on Radeon 9500 Mobile
Message-ID:  <20060529085636.1d0a9bbc@localhost>
In-Reply-To: <20060528150239.43976006@localhost>
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On Sun, 28 May 2006 15:02:39 +0200
Fabian Keil <freebsd-listen@fabiankeil.de> wrote:

> Norberto Meijome <freebsd@meijome.net> wrote:
>=20
> > On Sun, 28 May 2006 14:36:59 +0200
> > Fabian Keil <freebsd-listen@fabiankeil.de> wrote:
> >=20
> > > > Should I have acpi_video loaded if I already load acpi_ibm ?  _ibm
> > > > seems to provide what _video does (from a quick scan to _video's
> > > > manpage)
> > >=20
> > > Maybe your scan was a little to quick. They have quite
> > > different features and the same goes for their man pages.=20
> >=20
> > touch=E9  :) but the _ibm allows me to control the brightness of
> > lcd,etc... so... what do I really gain by having _video loaded.?
>=20
> You gain a few additional sysctls to play with:=20
>=20
> fk@TP51 ~ $sysctl hw.acpi.video
> hw.acpi.video.lcd0.active: 1
> hw.acpi.video.crt0.active: 0
> hw.acpi.video.tv0.active: 0
> hw.acpi.video.out0.active: 0

gotcha

>=20
> If you need them is another question, at least for
> me the defaults are ok and I never changed them.

will give it a try - would be useful if they are RW

>=20
> I always assumed acpi_video was somehow needed to get
> suspend/resume working, but at least the man page
> doesn't back up this assumption.
>=20
> Fabian

well, i havent needed it when using acpi_ibm (or acpi_toshiba for that matt=
er).

thanks for the info,
Beto



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