Re: acpi on r40e

[Sandro Weiser <sandro.weiser-Mmb7MZpHnFY@public.gmane.org>]

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Am Dienstag, 10. Februar 2004 06:18 schrieb Praveen C:
> >Interesting.
> >If you boot, say with "acpi=off", your volume and brightness buttons
> >work, but if you boot with ACPI enabled they have no effect?
>
> Thats right. I know that many others with R40e are facing the same
> problems as me with acpi (hangup with processor/thermal modules and the
> special button problems). When I am booting an acpi kernel I have to
> adjust the brightness before the kernel starts. With acpi=off the
> buttons work without me doing anything extra.
>
> There are other buttons which dont work either with or without acpi.
> For example Fn+F3 switches off the backlight in the display in Windows
> but does nothing in Linux. In Linux I can switch off the backlight only
> by closing the lid.
>
> Regarding the hangup with processor/thermal modules I am not
> able to locate any messages in kernel log.
>
> Is there any other information I can provide which help to identify the
> problem?
Here the same with Fn+F3 which doesn't works anymore with acpi
I'm using now apm in 2.4.24 and haven't tested 2.5.XX and 2.6.XX heavily 
anymore, but

When I experimented with early acpi-support in 2.4 before switching to apm 
(was in March 2003) Fn+F3 *definitely* worked with acpi.

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