F7 doesn't have the ASUS acpi software?

[d3viant]

I installed F7 on my Asus G1 laptop last night, only to find that my nice scripts that tell me I have mail don't work

It appears that the fedora kernel doesn't have the ASUS acpi driver compiled in - this creates some files under /proc/acpi/asus to manipulate LED's etc. Is anyone else seeing this? I would prefer to not have to recompile the kernel if I can help it...

Thanks

[parkash]

Same here... No asus_acpi

[d3viant]

I did have a look at adding it as a kernel module, but for some reason, my kernel also refuses to compile with a "no target for msr.c" error - very strange...

[chiui]

Fedora 7 includes a new module named asus-laptop which replaces the old module asus_acpi.
The led control file for the mail led is now
/sys/class/leds/asus:mail/brightness
( 0 -> off, nonzero -> on)
In that way you can "link" it to what is called a "trigger", e.g. something which is generating events to switch on and off the led.
for example:
modprobe ledtrig-heartbeat
echo heartbeat > /sys/class/leds/asus:mail/trigger

mac80211 wireless devices have triggers for tx and rx too
(to see what are available, just cat /sys/class/leds/asus:mail/trigger )


in
/sys/devices/platform/asus-laptop
you can still switch on/off wireless and bluetooth
Note that "wlan" just control the led, though "bluetooth" actually detach the power from the internal usb controller.

Hope this helps

[parkash]

Yes! It did help!! Thanx! Now a silly question: How do I load the module at boot time?

[chiui]

I add "modprobe asus-laptop" to
/etc/rc.d/rc.local

I think there are better ways, but it works

[Stian1979]

What about all the extra buttons on the laptop witch I got the adres for trough acpi_listen?

If it works don't fidle with it and fix things like ATI redeon that don't work by default witch it did not do in fc6 eather.