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Date:      Sat, 13 Feb 2010 12:31:55 +0100 (CET)
From:      Daniel Walter <d.walter@0x90.at>
To:        "Sam Fourman Jr." <sfourman@gmail.com>
Cc:        freebsd-acpi@freebsd.org, "Sergey V. Dyatko" <sergey.dyatko@gmail.com>
Subject:   Re: need help. asus-a6m+brightness control
Message-ID:  <alpine.BSF.2.00.1002131224290.1389@mini-beast>
In-Reply-To: <11167f521002122357g3aec580bl763f6aaafd3d5a19@mail.gmail.com>
References:  <20100209233324.6b1ca158@notebook> <11167f521002122357g3aec580bl763f6aaafd3d5a19@mail.gmail.com>

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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.  But 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)  and
> 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  amd64
>
>
> 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 have two options either switch to CURRENT or wait until acpi_video(4) is MFC'ed.

Daniel Walter
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