Re: PR/43504 CVS commit: src/sys/dev/acpi/wmi

[Jukka Ruohonen <jruohonen%iki.fi@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR kern/43504; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Jukka Ruohonen <jruohonen%iki.fi@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
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Subject: Re: PR/43504 CVS commit: src/sys/dev/acpi/wmi
Date: Wed, 30 Jun 2010 12:38:21 +0300

 On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 09:25:02AM +0000, David DEMELIER wrote:
 >  Tested, it does not panic anymore but it doesn't print any output and
 >  does not adjust brightness. I guess this laptop is impossible to
 >  maintain.
 
 Well this is sort-of expected as we do not yet have a driver for ACPI
 display devices.
 
 But if you have time and interest, boot with "-v" and "-x" (see
 boothowto(9)), press various hot and function keys, and if any output
 appears in dmesg, write the mappings down with a paper and pencil. That is,
 most of the hotkeys for wmihp(4) are still unknown, and this so-called "WMI"
 is pretty much undocumented, non-standardized, black magic.
 
 Some functionality may appear also in the envstat(8) output.