Re: How ACPI is actually implemented?

2006-11-27 Thread Alexey Starikovskiy
Eric Benton wrote: Hi Len, Thanks for the replay, I really appreciate it, but things are still not so clear to me :) I'll try to be more specific... My goal is to learn ACPI and write an article about it. On 11/27/06, Len Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sunday 26 November 2006 12:35, Eric

Re: How ACPI is actually implemented?

2006-11-27 Thread Eric Benton
Hi Alex, Thank you! It finally begins to settle down for me. On 11/27/06, Alexey Starikovskiy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Eric Benton wrote: I saw that events is generated by register blocks (control/status), which can be accessed through the FADT. What exactly are those register blocks? memory

Re: How ACPI is actually implemented?

2006-11-27 Thread Alexey Starikovskiy
Eric Benton wrote: Hi Alex, Thank you! It finally begins to settle down for me. On 11/27/06, Alexey Starikovskiy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Eric Benton wrote: I saw that events is generated by register blocks (control/status), which can be accessed through the FADT. What exactly are those

AE_NOT_FOUND while evaluating SleepState [\_S3_]

2006-11-27 Thread Daniel Drake
Hi, I'm looking into suspend-to-RAM on my Tyan S2895 K8WE motherboard (x86-64). It does not work, mem is not listed in /sys/power/state I have tracked down the problem to this code (acpi_get_sleep_type_data(), drivers/acpi/hardware/hwregs.c) /*Evaluate the namespace object containing the

Re: [PATCH 3/3] - Add support for acpi_load_table/acpi_unload_table_id

2006-11-27 Thread John Keller
Len, Can you tell us what we need to do to make this happen? Is it just a matter of some legal text in the patch header? Or?? Thanks John On Wednesday 15 November 2006 10:27, John Keller wrote: This patch makes acpi_load_table() available for use by removing it from the #ifdef

Re: [Patch] Default values for asus_acpi

2006-11-27 Thread Thomas Renninger
On Sun, 2006-11-12 at 14:22 +0100, Corentin CHARY wrote: With the current default values, unsuported laptops usualy get a lot of Asus ACPI: Error reading LCD status in dmesg. And it's also a problem for apps like kmilo : http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=102374 . So, I think default values

RE: new pmtools available for testing

2006-11-27 Thread Moore, Robert
I don't know what's going on here. I wrote acpixtract in C in order to get away from Perl and Perl issues. I certainly hope that we don't have yet another version of acpixtract. I don't mind changing things such as the interface, if everyone agrees it's for the better. But it seems like an

Broken DSDT (ASUS A6Km, Sempron 3300+)

2006-11-27 Thread Mirosław Majka
Hi, I've been sent to You by Ling Yu. don't know how to repair my broken DSDT. I've tried some of those sent to the ACPI for linux page but none of them works perfectly. I don't know where to send my decompiled code to search for some anwsers. Can I send my DSDT to You to have it examined and for

[PATCH] acpi: add backlight support to the sony_acpi driver (v2)

2006-11-27 Thread Alessandro Guido
Enable the sony_acpi driver to use the backlight subsysyem for adjusting the monitor brightness. Old way of changing the brightness will be still available for compatibility with existing tools. Signed-off-by: Alessandro Guido [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Kconfig |1 + sony_acpi.c | 53

RE: How ACPI is actually implemented?

2006-11-27 Thread Yuan, Kein
eg. the SCI handler might run a GPE handler, which will run the _Lxx method in AML, which might send a Notify() to an AML device object. The OS might have registered a driver on that object which will receive the event and do some action, such as sending an event to user-space. see button.c

Re: AE_NOT_FOUND while evaluating SleepState [\_S3_]

2006-11-27 Thread Matthew Garrett
On Mon, Nov 27, 2006 at 10:18:02AM -0500, Daniel Drake wrote: The message produced is: AE_NOT_FOUND while evaluating SleepState [\_S3_] Does this system simply not support suspend-to-RAM or can something be done on the Linux side? The absence of an _S3_ object indicates that the