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authorNate Lawson <njl@FreeBSD.org>2004-11-09 04:42:14 +0000
committerNate Lawson <njl@FreeBSD.org>2004-11-09 04:42:14 +0000
commit75478544cbabda5a6b10a10bc04eb3d4056836d1 (patch)
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Add info about some systems that refuse to switch via sysctl.
MFC after: 1 day
Notes
Notes: svn path=/head/; revision=137439
Diffstat (limited to 'share')
-rw-r--r--share/man/man4/acpi_video.410
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/share/man/man4/acpi_video.4 b/share/man/man4/acpi_video.4
index 49443d7c600e..156db56ad7e0 100644
--- a/share/man/man4/acpi_video.4
+++ b/share/man/man4/acpi_video.4
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@
.\"
.\" $FreeBSD$
.\"
-.Dd March 3, 2004
+.Dd November 8, 2004
.Dt ACPI_VIDEO 4
.Os
.Sh NAME
@@ -49,7 +49,7 @@ or
.Va tv :
.Bl -tag -width indent
.It Va hw.acpi.video. Ns Ao Ar device Ac Ns Va .active
-Current state of the device.
+Current state of the output device.
.It Va hw.acpi.video. Ns Ao Ar device Ac Ns Va .levels
List of supported brightness levels.
.It Va hw.acpi.video. Ns Ao Ar device Ac Ns Va .brightness
@@ -81,3 +81,9 @@ driver was written by
.An Taku YAMAMOTO Aq taku@cent.saitama-u.ac.jp .
This manual page was written by
.An Mark Santcroos Aq marks@ripe.net .
+.Sh 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,
+.Xr acpi_toshiba 4 )
+must be used instead.