02-15-2008
One thing i often stumble upon though is that some of these easy-to-use-distribution-xy are not even able to boot from LiveCD without turning acpi and apic and pci-acpi manually off!
This is really a showstopper, as other distros boot just fine. I also dont like this 6-month-thing anymore. It really is boring to some aspect too. But mainly... an example: my brother wanted to really try and use Linux and did so. I helped him installing and configuring some things. But he often asked 'how to get this new version of wine, or libgpod, .. ' you know. Telling him 'you can, just compile yourself and make a package' is just... not right. After 2 weeks he gave up and installed Windows again.
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LEARN ABOUT DEBIAN
acpi_video
ACPI_VIDEO(4) BSD Kernel Interfaces Manual ACPI_VIDEO(4)
NAME
acpi_video -- ACPI Video Extensions driver
SYNOPSIS
device acpi_video
DESCRIPTION
This driver uses the ACPI Video Extensions to control display switching and backlight brightness. The availability of the sysctl(8) vari-
ables depends on the functions offered by the host's ACPI implementation.
SYSCTL VARIABLES
The following sysctls are currently implemented, where <device> is crt, lcd, or tv:
hw.acpi.video.<device>.active
Current state of the output device.
hw.acpi.video.<device>.levels
List of supported brightness levels.
hw.acpi.video.<device>.brightness
Current brightness level of the device.
hw.acpi.video.<device>.fullpower
Preset brightness level to be used in full power mode.
hw.acpi.video.<device>.economy
Preset brightness level to be used in economy mode.
Defaults for these variables can be set in sysctl.conf(5), which is parsed at boot-time.
SEE ALSO
acpi(4), loader.conf(5), sysctl.conf(5), sysctl(8)
HISTORY
The acpi_video driver first appeared in FreeBSD 5.3.
AUTHORS
The acpi_video driver was written by Taku YAMAMOTO <taku@cent.saitama-u.ac.jp>. This manual page was written by Mark Santcroos
<marks@ripe.net>.
BUGS
Some systems only perform output switching via SMM even though they export the proper information via ACPI. On such systems, the proper
hotkeys or OEM driver (for example, acpi_toshiba(4)) must be used instead.
BSD
November 8, 2004 BSD