On Saturday 07 November 2009 18:44:46 Len Brown wrote: > > > There are other problems, but they are minor and can be lived with. Most > > hotkeys do not work. And the computer doesn't flash the power button > > when it is suspended. There is a omnibook module that purports do do > > these functions, but it isn't coded to work with the Satelite L355-S7915. > > I've been looking into fixing that. But it has occurred to me that that > > driver is largely duplicating standard acpi functions. And that it might > > be a better use of my time to look into configuring acpi to work with > > this laptop. Any recommendations? > > Generally the platform drivers implement support for non-standard > features that are not included in the generic ACPI support. > Often the non-standard support is implemented with vendor-specific > extensions to ACPI. > > Unfortunately, except in a few cases, hotkeys are non-standard. > So extending the platform driver for boxes similar to your own > to talk to your box may be the way to go.. > > The LED indicator on sleeping, however, is generally standard > (there is a method called "_SST" that we invoke that tells the BIOS > to start & stop blinking the suspend LED) > > Do you know if the LED blinked when Windows suspended on this laptop? > > cheers, > Len Brown, Intel Open Source Technology Center The LED blinks when suspended under Windows. It also blinks, at a much slower rate, when suspended in Ubuntu of I have the omnibook module loaded. I'm still looking at how it does that. Is this something that we should expect the stock acpi process to take care of? Have a nice day, -Ken > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-acpi" in > the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-acpi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
