Hi, I'm resending this, as SourceForge apparently dropped my reply, after 2011-02-24 15:10:42 1Psbty-0002KY-H9 <= wferi@xxxxxxx U=wferi P=local S=2175 id=8762s9bk0t.fsf@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 2011-02-24 15:10:51 1Psbty-0002KY-H9 => ibm-acpi-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx R=dnslookup T=remote_smtp H=mx.sourceforge.net [216.34.181.68] X=TLS1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32 DN="serialNumber=qX-f4C214rA08JCmMJ0mDr07yxudlxrj,C=US,ST=California,L=Mountain View,O=Geeknet\, Inc.,CN=*.sourceforge.net" 2011-02-24 15:10:51 1Psbty-0002KY-H9 Completed While looking up the mailing list archives, I found the compatibility table on http://ibm-acpi.sourceforge.net/. R50e has several question marks, let's see if I can fill those in: video: see this thread :) brightness: works fine, see http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=23972102 (I only wonder why it's reset to full brightness when I quit my X session...) volume: works fine, I think the subtlety mentioned in the last message of the above thread is already fixed. The ALSA control readback works fine as well. fan: worked when I tested it some time ago (can retest if needed) Back to the topic, please find my original reply below. Not that it's particularly important... Thanks, Feri. Ferenc Wagner <wferi@xxxxxxx> writes: > Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@xxxxxxxxxx> writes: > >> On Wed, 23 Feb 2011, Ferenc Wagner wrote: >> >>> at the same time, however, /proc/acpi/ibm/video indicates that only the >>> lcd (LVDS1) output is active: >> >> Ignore that thing entirely. I think I will just drop it when /proc is gone, > > By the time /proc is gone, you won't have anything left to drop under > it. :) > >> there is no sane sysfs interface for video output switching > > Does it make sense to separate it from the graphics driver, btw? > >> and it doesn't work right half the time anyway. > > Heh, it certainly worked for me some time ago (before the advent of > KMS). I didn't test it now, xrandr seems to be the preferred interface > to video output switching (at least under X). > >> It certainly doesn't work at all when combined with xrandr. > > OK, so I don't care. And what's the current best practice for video > output switching? Get acpid translate hotkey input events to xrandr > calls? Somewhat hairy, as $DISPLAY isn't available, but certainly > doable. Or use some separate desktop daemon? Or mask the key off and > get the platform firmware do the job? Or just start up a specialized > application for doing the switch? > > As a side note, acpid gave me some grief lately: when I closed the lid, > it issued (through Debian's acpi-support package) an xset dpms force off > command, switching off the VGA monitor, too... Took some time to find. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ What You Don't Know About Data Connectivity CAN Hurt You This paper provides an overview of data connectivity, details its effect on application quality, and explores various alternative solutions. http://p.sf.net/sfu/progress-d2d _______________________________________________ ibm-acpi-devel mailing list ibm-acpi-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ibm-acpi-devel