From owner-freebsd-acpi@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Feb 25 21:50:14 2015 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-acpi@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 4A81F92A for ; Wed, 25 Feb 2015 21:50:14 +0000 (UTC) Received: from bigwig.baldwin.cx (bigwig.baldwin.cx [IPv6:2001:470:1f11:75::1]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-CAMELLIA256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 21BF5E2D for ; Wed, 25 Feb 2015 21:50:14 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ralph.baldwin.cx (pool-173-54-116-245.nwrknj.fios.verizon.net [173.54.116.245]) by bigwig.baldwin.cx (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 14368B9B4; Wed, 25 Feb 2015 16:50:13 -0500 (EST) From: John Baldwin To: freebsd-acpi@freebsd.org Subject: Re: No acpi_dell(4) Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2015 14:53:53 -0500 Message-ID: <2401337.2oUs7iAbtB@ralph.baldwin.cx> User-Agent: KMail/4.14.2 (FreeBSD/10.1-STABLE; KDE/4.14.2; amd64; ; ) In-Reply-To: <54EB8C21.2080600@att.net> References: <20150222180817.GD27984@strugglingcoder.info> <54EB8C21.2080600@att.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-Greylist: Sender succeeded SMTP AUTH, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.2.7 (bigwig.baldwin.cx); Wed, 25 Feb 2015 16:50:13 -0500 (EST) Cc: Anthony Jenkins X-BeenThere: freebsd-acpi@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18-1 Precedence: list List-Id: ACPI and power management development List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2015 21:50:14 -0000 On Monday, February 23, 2015 03:22:57 PM Anthony Jenkins wrote: > On 02/22/2015 01:08 PM, hiren panchasara wrote: > > I've just got a lightweight dell e7240 which is pretty nice with very > > good batterylife. > > > > Only trouble is none of the buttons work. > > > > Is there any hackery people do to make them work? Time permitting, I'd > > like to see if we can get something together which looks like acpi_ibm. > > Some machines throw acpi_wmi(4) events when those special buttons are > pushed. Load acpi_wmi(4) driver and cat /proc/wmistat0. The WMI > objects with hex numbers in the EVENT column *might* be for your keys. > My HP Envy Sleekbook uses WMI for the radios key, but I haven't figured > out how to get events for the LCD brightness control keys (although my > brightness controls *do* work). I used a Linux driver as a reference tho... > > I'd like to make the acpi_wmi(4) interface easier to use, but my backlog > of contributions I'm sitting on is only growing. I've been waiting to see if you were going to post an update to rev 3 of your CMOS patch after Ian's last round of feedback FWIW. Much of his feedback seemed relevant (and I know you've already accepted some other rounds of feedback on that patch before then, hence 'v3') -- John Baldwin