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uman · 06-24-2009, 04:45 PM

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Originally Posted by kizwan

uman,

Just got a reply from Superhai. Its look like Superhai will not continue AMW0 project.

Is there anybody interested continuing his project?

I wish I could say yes, but my son's Acer has qualified for a replacement. So I won't have a machine that has an AMW0 to test. And that is a huge problem for development. As I understand it, Superhai's AMW0 basically allows you to call into the AMW0 device. The Linux project acer-acpi (and it's successor wmi-acpi) does the same, and supplies some utilities so that you can call/respond to the AMW0 methods.

The IOKit doc is pretty good at showing how to make a user-callable module that calls in-kernel routines. So if you know (or have someone who has an Acer and knows C) it shouldn't be hard to hack. My suggestion is to start a mini-group of Acer users, and see if anyone has any dev experience amongst the group.

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Other topic.....
Sleep:-
I found out that by deleting entry for EHCI devices in Acer Aspire 9420 DSDT, it was able to sleep. Now the EHCI devices detected as external/expansion card. Funny thing is external hard disk, which connected to EHCI port, is not turn off when putting laptop to sleep. Is this also happen with real MacBook?

I don't think you want to delete the EHCI devices. I think you need to Notify them like on my MacBook Pro DSDT.

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I know that "Notify (\_SB.SLPB, 0x80)" will put computer to sleep but I don't know what "Notify (\_SB.PWRB, 0x02)" do. Do you know what "Notify (\_SB.PWRB, 0x02)" means? In my DSDT, PWRB is handle by SLPB (handle both sleep-button & power-button).

The Mac has 3 devices: PWRB (power button), SLPB (sleep button), and LID0 (the lid switch). Most hackbooks don't have all of these. I believe my gateway only had SLPB (although I am not sure-- my DSDT.dsl does have a PWRB, but I may have added it).

The power button has multiple functions. Normally if you hit it, it brings up a menu to sleep, shutdown, restart or cancel. But when the Mac is already sleeping (not thru lid sleep), it will wake from sleep. there is also some programmatic control of it in the System preferences. When a Mac has slept through the lid switch, then opening the lid switch resumes the Mac.

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I also found "extra" method in EHCI function (MacBook3,1):-

Code:

                Method (_DSM, 4, NotSerialized)
                {
                    Store (Package (0x07)
                        {
                            "AAPL,current-available", 
                            0x04B0, 
                            "AAPL,current-extra", 
                            0x02BC, 
                            "AAPL,current-in-sleep", 
                            0x03E8, 
                            Buffer (0x01)
                            {
                                0x00
                            }
                        }, Local0)
                    DTGP (Arg0, Arg1, Arg2, Arg3, RefOf (Local0))
                    Return (Local0)
                }

I think instead of removing EHCI entry from DSDT, maybe I can use this code to set EHCI device as external device. Maybe this can fix sleep issue too.

Strange my Macbook dsdt does not have this code AT ALL.

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Clamshell:-
Does real MacBook automatically resume from sleep when lid is open? Or still need to push keyboard button to resume from sleep, just like windows?

Opening the lid resumes from sleep.

I'm sorry I can't be of much use now. I'm hoping next week that I will find the time to backup and do a retail install of 10.5.7. Only then will I try more DSDT hacking, since right now my machine is a mess of hacked kexts!

-u