Re: [PATCH] Fujitsu application panel driver

[Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@linux-foundation.org>]

On Mon, 19 Nov 2007 13:50:30 +0100
Robert Gerlach <khnz@gmx.de> wrote:

> Am Montag 19 November 2007 05:43:07 schrieb Stephen Hemminger:
> > On Sun, 18 Nov 2007 23:36:58 +0100
> >
> > Robert Gerlach <khnz@gmx.de> wrote:
> > > Am Dienstag 23 Oktober 2007 21:55:55 schrieb Stephen Hemminger:
> > > > +MODULE_ALIAS("dmi:*:svnFUJITSU:pnLifeBook*:pvr*:rvnFUJITSU:*");
> > > > +MODULE_ALIAS("dmi:*:svnFUJITSU:pnLifebook*:pvr*:rvnFUJITSU:*");
> > >
> > > Please make sure that this module is not autoload on Lifebook tablets (T
> > > series and P1[56]10). It works fine, but only supports a subset of
> > > features (4 of 7 buttons and no display orientation for my T4010).
> >
> > I would rather get those tablets working (with help). Rather than trying
> > to enumerate all the possible DMI values of the full range of different
> > laptops.
> 
> I've played with apanel some month ago. I've never found the keys and the 
> switch over the I2C bus. So I was starting my own module (fsc_btns) to play 
> with the IO range announced by ACPI. There I found it all. But my module 
> doesn't work on all Lifebooks (S7110 for example; has no such ACPI device).
>

Are you sure the IO range isn't really the same as the I2C bus.

See: http://apanel.sourceforge.net/tech.php

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Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@linux-foundation.org>