[ltp] ibm-acpi compatibility table

[David Tansey]

Boris,

I like the new table. Unfortunately I can't seem to get my undocking to
work. It freezes. Suspend works. Resume works. Just not dock/undock. 

I have an x40. Have you gotten any HOWTOs or tips for docking?

Thanks!

David


On Thu, 2004-10-14 at 09:18 -0400, Alex Deucher wrote:
> On Wed, 13 Oct 2004 22:28:02 -0700, Borislav Deianov
> <borislav@users.sourceforge.net> wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > Thanks to Arno Willig, the ibm-acpi homepage now sports a nice
> > compatibility table by model and feature. Thanks to me, that table sat
> > without updates for weeks. I finally got my act together, went through
> > all the reports you guys sent me and filled it out. If you looked at
> > it recently and didn't think it reflected reality, please have another
> > look. If it still doesn't reflect reality, let me know!
> > 
> > http://ibm-acpi.sourceforge.net/
> > 
> > A couple of other things:
> > 
> > I'm still collecting DSDTs. Currently, I have the following:
> > 
> >         A21e, A31, A31p
> >         G40
> >         R32, R40
> >         T20, T21, T23, T30, T40, T40p, T41, T41p, T42, T42p
> >         X20, X24, X30, X31, X40
> > 
> > If your model is not listed above, I'd very much appreciate a copy.
> > It's the only way I can try to make ibm-acpi work on your Thinkpad.
> > 
> > Also, please get in touch if all of the following are true for you:
> > 
> > - Fn-F7 can switch the video output
> > - the video switching feature in ibm-acpi-0.4 does NOT work
> > - you have some time to test a few debugging versions of ibm-acpi
> > 
> > I've had several reports of video switching in -0.4 not working, but
> > in most cases Fn-F7 doesn't work either. This is typically due to the
> > way the X driver configures the video card and cannot be fixed in
> > ibm-acpi. If Fn-F7 does work, however, switching through ibm-acpi
> > should work also. Hence the above request.
> 
> For radeon chips, the code in question is in radeon_driver.c.  It
> manipulates the bios a bit to make the lid work semi-properly since
> xorg currently lacks acpi support.  I'm not sure what good it would do
> to mess with it at this point, but I thought I'd mention it as an
> FYI...
> 
> Alex
> 
> > 
> > Wishes,
> > Boris