Tablet PC + 2.4.18 + acpi 20020726 + swsup11 working !

["Robert Wörle" <robert.woerle-y2s3ugBAdl9BDgjK7y7TUQ@public.gmane.org>]

Hi Folks

Im a smurf reader of this list and i ve been trying ACPI now for more 
than 5 months .
The device i want to have ACPI running is the worlds first Tablet PC 
called  "Pacebook" .
As i am pretty much the only linux enthusiastic at our company , im 
"porting " linux to that Tablet .

Until now ACPI was quite good working : I can read the battery state , 
see if im plugged or not , get the temperatur of the TRANSMETA (!) and 
all that minor stuff , BUT i had no chance to use S3 S4 ---until 
yesterday when i tried the mentioned patches and now can S4 very good !!
--YES it is working ! __ icantbelievethat _

So guys : I congratulate you ! Very very very good work !

Things TODO now :
try to get S3 also working ( to have this , ive to implement a function 
to turn off the backlight )
i ve the spec`s and I/O Port to do that  ,but im still expierencing 
problems at starting to write this driver , since
a device called pic2 is loaded at the needed I/O Port  ( 0xB1-0xB2) ...

When i ve finished that driver ive to find a way , where the ACPI 
Subsystem can call that backlight_off function.

What is the supposed procedure to implement such "thirdparty" functions 
into ACPI ?
will there be a script to be called ( like at APM , where we had 
apmd_proxy to shutdown critical things before suspend ) ?


Anyhow folks ... im very proud of that community and keep up doing that 
great work !

Regards Rob
 



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