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28.Dd February 8, 2010
29.Dt ACPI_ASUS 4
30.Os
31.Sh NAME
32.Nm acpi_asus
33.Nd Asus Laptop Extras
34.Sh SYNOPSIS
35To compile this driver into the kernel,
36place the following line in your
37kernel configuration file:
38.Bd -ragged -offset indent
39.Cd "device acpi_asus"
40.Ed
41.Pp
42Alternatively, to load the driver as a
43module at boot time, place the following line in
44.Xr loader.conf 5 :
45.Bd -literal -offset indent
46acpi_asus_load="YES"
47.Ed
48.Sh DESCRIPTION
49The
50.Nm
51driver provides support for the extra ACPI-controlled gadgets, such as hotkeys
52and leds, found on recent Asus (and Medion) laptops.
53It allows one to use the
54.Xr sysctl 8
55interface to manipulate the brightness of the LCD panel and the display output
56state.
57Hotkey events are passed to
58.Xr devd 8
59for easy handling in userspace with the default configuration in
60.Pa /etc/devd/asus.conf .
61.Pp
62Currently, the following Asus laptops are fully supported:
63.Pp
64.Bl -item -offset indent -compact
65.It
66xxN
67.It
68A1x
69.It
70A2x
71.It
72A3N
73.It
74A4D
75.It
76A6VM
77.It
78D1x
79.It
80J1x
81.It
82L2B
83.It
84L2D
85.It
86L2E
87.It
88L3C
89.It
90L3D
91.It
92L3H
93.It
94L4E
95.It
96L4R
97.It
98L5x
99.It
100L8x
101.It
102M1A
103.It
104M2E
105.It
106M6N
107.It
108M6R
109.It
110S1x
111.It
112S2x
113.It
114V6V
115.It
116W5A
117.It
118Eee PC
119.El
120.Pp
121Additionally,
122.Nm
123also supports the Asus-compatible
124.Em ATK0100
125interface found in
126.Em Samsung P30/P35
127laptops.
128.Sh SYSCTL VARIABLES
129The following sysctls are currently implemented:
130.Bl -tag -width indent
131.It Va hw.acpi.asus.lcd_brightness
132Makes the LCD backlight brighter or dimmer (higher values are brighter).
133.It Va hw.acpi.asus.lcd_backlight
134Turns the LCD backlight on or off.
135.It Va hw.acpi.asus.video_output
136Sets the active display to use according to a bitwise OR of the following:
137.Pp
138.Bl -tag -width indent -compact
139.It Li 0
140No display
141.It Li 1
142LCD
143.It Li 2
144CRT
145.It Li 4
146TV-Out
147.El
148.Pp
149Some models also support video switching via the generic
150.Xr acpi_video 4
151driver.
152Most models do not, however.
153.El
154.Pp
155Defaults for these variables can be set in
156.Xr sysctl.conf 5 ,
157which is parsed at boot-time.
158.Sh SEE ALSO
159.Xr acpi 4 ,
160.Xr acpi_asus_wmi 4 ,
161.Xr acpi_video 4 ,
162.Xr sysctl.conf 5 ,
163.Xr sysctl 8
164.Rs
165.%T The acpi4asus Project
166.%U http://sourceforge.net/projects/acpi4asus/
167.Re
168.Sh HISTORY
169The
170.Nm
171driver first appeared in
172.Fx 5.3 .
173.Sh AUTHORS
174.An -nosplit
175The
176.Nm
177driver and this manual page were written by
178.An Philip Paeps Aq Mt philip@FreeBSD.org .
179.Pp
180Inspiration came from the
181.Em acpi4asus project
182started by
183.An Julien Lerouge
184which maintains a driver implementing this
185functionality in the
186.Tn Linux
187kernel.
188