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authornjl <njl@FreeBSD.org>2004-11-09 04:42:14 +0000
committernjl <njl@FreeBSD.org>2004-11-09 04:42:14 +0000
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Add info about some systems that refuse to switch via sysctl.
MFC after: 1 day
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diff --git a/share/man/man4/acpi_video.4 b/share/man/man4/acpi_video.4
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--- 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.
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