Happy to hear the good news on the maestro3 issue... seems like i'll have to compile another kernel, and incorporate that fix into my alsa here... ;)
BTW: I upgraded to the A10 BIOS too. Good news: Volume keys work like the other extra keys, so you don't need i8kbuttons any more. You can use them easily with "hotkeys" or by xmodmap in the window managers like any other key. (hotkeys features a nice onscreen volume bar ;) my hotkeys keyboard definition: <?xml version="1.0"?> <CONFIG model="Dell Inspirion 8100 Notebook"> <Play keycode="129"/> <Stop keycode="130"/> <PrevTrack keycode="131"/> <NextTrack keycode="132"/> <!-- you need BIOS Version A10 for the volume keys to work! --> <VolUp keycode="176"/> <VolDown keycode="174"/> <Mute keycode="160"/> </CONFIG> Second good news: seems like acpi supports more features (maybe they were added in the new acpi version though) - and the temperature as reported by acpi and the one reported by i8kmon finally are in sync, so the fan control via i8kmon works better. (and acpi doesn't think the system is overheated and does emergency-poweroff...) Bad news: The fan always goes double speed here, then slows down to single speed after a second - a bit noisier. Well, i don't care if APM doesn't work any more actually... ACPI (not the one in the kernel, but the patch from acpi.sf.net) works great. cat /proc/acpi/battery/BAT1/* ---- /proc/acpi/battery/BAT1/alarm alarm: 3000 mWh /proc/acpi/battery/BAT1/info present: yes design capacity: 57420 mWh last full capacity: 57420 mWh battery technology: rechargeable design voltage: 14800 mV design capacity warning: 3000 mWh design capacity low: 1000 mWh capacity granularity 1: 200 mWh capacity granularity 2: 200 mWh model number: LIP8084DLP serial number: 55117 battery type: LION OEM info: Sony Corp. /proc/acpi/battery/BAT1/state present: yes capacity state: ok charging state: unknown present rate: unknown <--- works when battery powered!! remaining capacity: 57420 mWh present voltage: 16714 mV ----- So one could actually calculate the speed the battery is discharing and how long the battery will hopefully last on a more reliable basis. DRAWBACK: querying the "info" part blocks the system for a few msecs. So don't do this every second ;) (some battery appled used to do... but it can't deal with the name change /1/state -> /BAT1/state anyway) I can get lid, power button, ac-disconnect and connect, battery addition and removal-events via acpid and put the system into sleep mode. I havn't yet tried that software-suspend-to-disk patch though. my next goal will be an init (i'm currently playing around with simpleinit ;) that will for example shut down services i don't need always when i disconnect the power for example. Simpleinit is already good at brining my gdm up very fast, while starting the apache and mysql databases later. Seems like the system faster boots up, although it doesn't (unless simpleinit actually does start services in parallel, for which it is designed, but i think this isn't implemented...) Greetings, Erich -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
