From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jun 17 11:16:53 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DA7D837B401 for ; Tue, 17 Jun 2003 11:16:53 -0700 (PDT) Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan.emsphone.com [199.67.51.101]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 15D6443FBD for ; Tue, 17 Jun 2003 11:16:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.12.9/8.12.9) id h5HIGnCd032767 for FreeBSD-current@FreeBSD.org; Tue, 17 Jun 2003 13:16:49 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from dan) Date: Tue, 17 Jun 2003 13:16:49 -0500 From: Dan Nelson To: FreeBSD Current Message-ID: <20030617181649.GM64929@dan.emsphone.com> References: <20030617180552.GA4769@laptop.lambertfam.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030617180552.GA4769@laptop.lambertfam.org> X-OS: FreeBSD 5.1-CURRENT X-message-flag: Outlook Error User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.4i Subject: Re: ACPI testing/debugging guide? X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 17 Jun 2003 18:16:54 -0000 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