Date: Wed, 30 Oct 2013 17:12:53 +0200 From: Sergiy Mikhailushko <ooomka@yandex.ru> To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: ASUS U46E laptop brightness Message-ID: <527121F5.7030705@yandex.ru> In-Reply-To: <524C3747.6060900@yandex.ru> References: <524C3747.6060900@yandex.ru>
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Hi all
Could you please help me with a little annoying problem concerning
laptop backlight?
I've got ASUS U46E laptop with Intel GMA graphics running FreeBSD
9-STABLE amd64. The problem is that backlight is always set to maximum
value. Pressing Fn+F5 (brightness down) has no effect, just yielding the
following to /var/log/messages:
ACPI Error: Result stack is empty! State=0xfffffe00017fa800
(20110527/dswstate-113)
ACPI Exception: AE_AML_NO_RETURN_VALUE, Missing or null operand
(20110527/dsutils-695)
ACPI Exception: AE_AML_NO_RETURN_VALUE, While creating Arg 0
(20110527/dsutils-821)
ACPI Error: Method parse/execution failed [\_SB_.PCI0.GFX0.GCBL] (Node
0xfffffe000181f600), AE_AML_NO_RETURN_VALUE (20110527/psparse-560)
This happens both in console and X Window mode
What I've tried:
1) Flashed the latest BIOS version from ASUS website (ver301)
2) Upgraded OS to the latest STABLE version (last upgrade Oct 28 2013)
3) Loading acpi_asus module:
# kldload acpi_asus
# sysctl -a | grep asus
#
4) Loading acpi_video module:
# sysctl hw.acpi.video.lcd0.active=1
hw.acpi.video.lcd0.active: 0 -> 0
# sysctl hw.acpi.video.lcd0.fullpower=60
hw.acpi.video.lcd0.fullpower: 100 -> 60
# sysctl hw.acpi.video.lcd0.economy=60
hw.acpi.video.lcd0.economy: 77 -> 60
# sysctl hw.acpi.video.lcd0.brightness=60
hw.acpi.video.lcd0.brightness: 60 -> 60
Values are changed but brightness doesn't
5) Using acpi_call utility (not sure what value should be changed, tried
acpi_call -p '\_SB_.PCI0.GFX0.GCBL' and acpi_call -p
'\_SB_.PCI0.LPCB.EC0_._Q0E' -- both resulting in Unknown object type '0')
6) Writing to freebsd-questions and freebsd-acpi mailing lists -- no
replies so far
# uname -a
FreeBSD toysrv 9.2-STABLE FreeBSD 9.2-STABLE #0 r257265: Mon Oct 28
23:05:31 EET 2013 oomka@toysrv:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/TOYSRV amd64
# acpidump -dt > u46e.asl (http://tny.cz/452a2978)
I used to run i386 FreeBSD on this laptop -- the brightness control was
okay on it. There were often kernel panics on that architecture so I've
switched to amd64. Panics disappeared and the things work fine so far,
except the screen brightness.
I know that my problem isn't critical when I'm working on daylight or
with external LCD display, but when I have to work at the laptop at
night -- this spotlight really drives me crazy. Thank you in advance for
your help.
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