From: Ducrot B. <du...@po...> - 2003-11-03 11:10:14
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On Mon, Nov 03, 2003 at 11:58:03AM +0100, Nikolaus Filus wrote: > On Mon, Nov 03, 2003 at 10:37:48AM +0100, Luca Capello wrote: > >Hello, maybe it could be useful even if the thread is (quite) old. > > > >on 10/27/03 18:08, Karol Kozimor wrote: > >>Pressing Fn+F7 to turn the LCD on / off causes 2.6.0-test9 to panic. > >I've an ASUS Centrino M3N, bios 0203A (20030514), Debian > >testing/unstable, kernel 2.6.0-test9 w/ ACPI 20031002. When I press > >Fn+F7 the LCD correctly switchs on/off and I don't have any kernel panic. > > > >Just you to know :-) > > > BTW: Is this a general ACPI feature or BIOS-related? I mean, I have a > Toshiba Satellite 3000-601 and was NEVER able to switch to/from external vga > using linux (no 2.4 and no 2.6 version!). The display freezes, the fan goes > on and that was it .... :( > That depend. For the Satellite 3000-601, this is even the two: the toshiba will got an acpi event from the embeded controller and the portion of the AML related to will call a smi handler... -- Ducrot Bruno -- Which is worse: ignorance or apathy? -- Don't know. Don't care. |