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diff --git a/Documentation/laptops/acer-wmi.txt b/Documentation/laptops/acer-wmi.txt deleted file mode 100644 index 4beafa6..0000000 --- a/Documentation/laptops/acer-wmi.txt +++ /dev/null @@ -1,184 +0,0 @@ -Acer Laptop WMI Extras Driver -http://code.google.com/p/aceracpi -Version 0.3 -4th April 2009 - -Copyright 2007-2009 Carlos Corbacho <carlos@strangeworlds.co.uk> - -acer-wmi is a driver to allow you to control various parts of your Acer laptop -hardware under Linux which are exposed via ACPI-WMI. - -This driver completely replaces the old out-of-tree acer_acpi, which I am -currently maintaining for bug fixes only on pre-2.6.25 kernels. All development -work is now focused solely on acer-wmi. - -Disclaimer -********** - -Acer and Wistron have provided nothing towards the development acer_acpi or -acer-wmi. All information we have has been through the efforts of the developers -and the users to discover as much as possible about the hardware. - -As such, I do warn that this could break your hardware - this is extremely -unlikely of course, but please bear this in mind. - -Background -********** - -acer-wmi is derived from acer_acpi, originally developed by Mark -Smith in 2005, then taken over by Carlos Corbacho in 2007, in order to activate -the wireless LAN card under a 64-bit version of Linux, as acerhk[1] (the -previous solution to the problem) relied on making 32 bit BIOS calls which are -not possible in kernel space from a 64 bit OS. - -[1] acerhk: http://www.cakey.de/acerhk/ - -Supported Hardware -****************** - -NOTE: The Acer Aspire One is not supported hardware. It cannot work with -acer-wmi until Acer fix their ACPI-WMI implementation on them, so has been -blacklisted until that happens. - -Please see the website for the current list of known working hardware: - -http://code.google.com/p/aceracpi/wiki/SupportedHardware - -If your laptop is not listed, or listed as unknown, and works with acer-wmi, -please contact me with a copy of the DSDT. - -If your Acer laptop doesn't work with acer-wmi, I would also like to see the -DSDT. - -To send me the DSDT, as root/sudo: - -cat /sys/firmware/acpi/tables/DSDT > dsdt - -And send me the resulting 'dsdt' file. - -Usage -***** - -On Acer laptops, acer-wmi should already be autoloaded based on DMI matching. -For non-Acer laptops, until WMI based autoloading support is added, you will -need to manually load acer-wmi. - -acer-wmi creates /sys/devices/platform/acer-wmi, and fills it with various -files whose usage is detailed below, which enables you to control some of the -following (varies between models): - -* the wireless LAN card radio -* inbuilt Bluetooth adapter -* inbuilt 3G card -* mail LED of your laptop -* brightness of the LCD panel - -Wireless -******** - -With regards to wireless, all acer-wmi does is enable the radio on the card. It -is not responsible for the wireless LED - once the radio is enabled, this is -down to the wireless driver for your card. So the behaviour of the wireless LED, -once you enable the radio, will depend on your hardware and driver combination. - -e.g. With the BCM4318 on the Acer Aspire 5020 series: - -ndiswrapper: Light blinks on when transmitting -b43: Solid light, blinks off when transmitting - -Wireless radio control is unconditionally enabled - all Acer laptops that support -acer-wmi come with built-in wireless. However, should you feel so inclined to -ever wish to remove the card, or swap it out at some point, please get in touch -with me, as we may well be able to gain some data on wireless card detection. - -The wireless radio is exposed through rfkill. - -Bluetooth -********* - -For bluetooth, this is an internal USB dongle, so once enabled, you will get -a USB device connection event, and a new USB device appears. When you disable -bluetooth, you get the reverse - a USB device disconnect event, followed by the -device disappearing again. - -Bluetooth is autodetected by acer-wmi, so if you do not have a bluetooth module -installed in your laptop, this file won't exist (please be aware that it is -quite common for Acer not to fit bluetooth to their laptops - so just because -you have a bluetooth button on the laptop, doesn't mean that bluetooth is -installed). - -For the adventurously minded - if you want to buy an internal bluetooth -module off the internet that is compatible with your laptop and fit it, then -it will work just fine with acer-wmi. - -Bluetooth is exposed through rfkill. - -3G -** - -3G is currently not autodetected, so the 'threeg' file is always created under -sysfs. So far, no-one in possession of an Acer laptop with 3G built-in appears to -have tried Linux, or reported back, so we don't have any information on this. - -If you have an Acer laptop that does have a 3G card in, please contact me so we -can properly detect these, and find out a bit more about them. - -To read the status of the 3G card (0=off, 1=on): -cat /sys/devices/platform/acer-wmi/threeg - -To enable the 3G card: -echo 1 > /sys/devices/platform/acer-wmi/threeg - -To disable the 3G card: -echo 0 > /sys/devices/platform/acer-wmi/threeg - -To set the state of the 3G card when loading acer-wmi, pass: -threeg=X (where X is 0 or 1) - -Mail LED -******** - -This can be found in most older Acer laptops supported by acer-wmi, and many -newer ones - it is built into the 'mail' button, and blinks when active. - -On newer (WMID) laptops though, we have no way of detecting the mail LED. If -your laptop identifies itself in dmesg as a WMID model, then please try loading -acer_acpi with: - -force_series=2490 - -This will use a known alternative method of reading/ writing the mail LED. If -it works, please report back to me with the DMI data from your laptop so this -can be added to acer-wmi. - -The LED is exposed through the LED subsystem, and can be found in: - -/sys/devices/platform/acer-wmi/leds/acer-wmi::mail/ - -The mail LED is autodetected, so if you don't have one, the LED device won't -be registered. - -Backlight -********* - -The backlight brightness control is available on all acer-wmi supported -hardware. The maximum brightness level is usually 15, but on some newer laptops -it's 10 (this is again autodetected). - -The backlight is exposed through the backlight subsystem, and can be found in: - -/sys/devices/platform/acer-wmi/backlight/acer-wmi/ - -Credits -******* - -Olaf Tauber, who did the real hard work when he developed acerhk -http://www.cakey.de/acerhk/ -All the authors of laptop ACPI modules in the kernel, whose work -was an inspiration in the early days of acer_acpi -Mathieu Segaud, who solved the problem with having to modprobe the driver -twice in acer_acpi 0.2. -Jim Ramsay, who added support for the WMID interface -Mark Smith, who started the original acer_acpi - -And the many people who have used both acer_acpi and acer-wmi. |
