support for asus M6N(e) laptops

[Matthew Garrett]

On Mon, 2005-03-21 at 14:52 +0100, 84yelo3 wrote:

> There is a kernel patch that makes acpi parser compatible with asus bios 
> (buggy):
> http://m6n.ath.cx/aml_method_exec_hack.patch
> a new kernel package could be compiled with this patch.

Alternatively, Asus could be asked to fix their broken BIOSes. Adding
extra kernel packages isn't a real option - it'd double the time taken
to produce security updates.

> It would be a great thing if acpi4asus.sf.net package would be inserted 
> in a repository, because it helps to configure hotkeys in asus laptops

A lot of this support is already present in Hoary, though we currently
lack support for generating user-level events. I'll look into this.

> Unfortunately low voltage states (cat /proc/acpi/processor/CPU1/power) 
> don't work in these models (as state 0 is active and the others are not 
> supported), so it's not possible to say that asus laptop support is done.

The processor power states won't be used if a hardware-specific cpufreq
module has been loaded.

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Matthew Garrett | mjg59 at srcf.ucam.org