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Date:      Thu, 06 Jul 2006 12:40:34 -0600
From:      Colin Faber <cfaber@ruckusmail.com>
To:        john@utzweb.net
Cc:        freebsd-acpi@freebsd.org, freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: ACPI hw.acpi.video.* OID's not showing up witth acpi_video on Dell D610
Message-ID:  <44AD5922.40801@ruckusmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <48662.69.93.78.27.1151009545.squirrel@69.93.78.27>
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Hi John,

No, drm/dri wouldn't work with it.

I ended up upgrading to 7.0-CURRENT and other than the random failure 
here and there the system has been great.

-cf


john@utzweb.net wrote:
>> Hi John,
>>
>> I've discovered that if I omit acpi acpi_video and drm from my kernel,
>> and load them later on as modules the OID's do appear correctly.
>>     
>
> yes, but do they (OIDs, drm, agp) work correctly afterwords?
>
> my experience was that on 6.1-RELEASE if i loaded agp and/or  i915drm
> after acpi_video then they wouldnt work, xorg would fail with a message
> along the lines of
>
> "/dev/agpgart" no such file or directory
>
> and the sysctls for turning on and off the screen from acpi_video wouldnt
> do anything.
>
> as always, YMMV, :-)
>
> johnu
>
>   
>> John Baldwin wrote:
>>     
>>> On Tuesday 20 June 2006 21:25, Colin Faber wrote:
>>>
>>>       
>>>> Hello Guys,
>>>>
>>>> First, sorry for the cross posting, I'm not sure if someone in mobile
>>>> or
>>>> acpi can help me out with this one..
>>>>
>>>> In Any event, I'm running a Dell Latitude D610 with FreeBSD 6.1-STABLE.
>>>> The last  cvsup on my source tree was Jun 19th.
>>>>
>>>> The problem I'm having is, for the life of me I can't seem to get
>>>> hw.acpi.video OID entries to show up. I've followed every bit of advice
>>>> I could  find on the mailing lists and usenet postings.
>>>>
>>>> I've compiled and installed acpi_video,  ACPI does work and events are
>>>> trapped.
>>>>
>>>>         
>>> drm(4) is using the device node that acpi_video(4) wants to use.  You
>>> can
>>> either update to -CURRENT where this is fixed, or you can turn off
>>> drm(4) so
>>> you can use acpi_video(4).
>>>
>>>
>>>       
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>>     
>
>
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