Date: Tue, 17 Jun 2003 13:16:49 -0500 From: Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com> To: FreeBSD Current <FreeBSD-current@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: ACPI testing/debugging guide? Message-ID: <20030617181649.GM64929@dan.emsphone.com> In-Reply-To: <20030617180552.GA4769@laptop.lambertfam.org> References: <20030617180552.GA4769@laptop.lambertfam.org>
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In the last episode (Jun 17), Scott Lambert said: > Is there some list of actions to preform and data to collect that > would assist with getting the ACPI stuff lined out? > > I've read the acpiconf man page but don't know that it gives me any > way to test for any specific functionality. I've been gradually > piecing together the meaning of S1, S2, S3, S4, and S5 and figuring > out that the *_(button|switch)_state sysctl oids specify which state > to go to on activation of that button rather than being a descriptor > of the current state of the buttons. > > I haven't figured out if the hw.acpi.thermal oids. I think maybe > ACPI doesn't recognize the hardware. Is a thermal oid value of 3692 > actually 36.92 celcius or some scale from 0x0000 to 0xFFFF? ACPI records temperature in tenths of a Kelvin, if you can believe it :) > Is battery.time supposed to be -1 when on AC? That may depend on the laptop. Some estimate the time by extrapolating from the battery drain rate, and if it's not draining, it can't guess. > My resume from suspend doesn't work and I don't know how to tell where > that is going wrong. I have no serial interface so I can't use a serial > console when the LCD doesn't come on. I can live without suspend/resume > functionality. You can't miss something you have never had. :-) My Dell laptop doesn't bring the display back on, but I can manually re-enable it with the Fn-CRT/LCD key. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com
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