sony-laptop: support for turning off and on the builtin cd/dvd

sony-laptop: support for turning off and on the builtin cd/dvd

[Norbert Preining]

Hi all,

is there any chance to support turning off and on the builtin cdrom?
And if, best would be directly with rfkill support. I assume that this
would need another call in the sony_acpi module.

As usual, I am open for testing ...

Best wishes

Norbert

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Re: sony-laptop: support for turning off and on the builtin cd/dvd

[Matthew Garrett]

On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 10:09:46PM +0200, Norbert Preining wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> is there any chance to support turning off and on the builtin cdrom?
> And if, best would be directly with rfkill support. I assume that this
> would need another call in the sony_acpi module.
> 
> As usual, I am open for testing ...

I don't believe that we have any idea how to on the newer machines.

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Re: sony-laptop: support for turning off and on the builtin cd/dvd

[Norbert Preining]

On Fr, 24 Apr 2009, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> I don't believe that we have any idea how to on the newer machines.

Blind shooting at some of the ACPI methods, would that help? (loading
sony_laptop with debug=1 etc)

Best wishes

Norbert

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Re: sony-laptop: support for turning off and on the builtin cd/dvd

[Matthew Garrett]

On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 10:19:26PM +0200, Norbert Preining wrote:
> On Fr, 24 Apr 2009, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> > I don't believe that we have any idea how to on the newer machines.
> 
> Blind shooting at some of the ACPI methods, would that help? (loading
> sony_laptop with debug=1 etc)

It's certainly a possibility. One of the SN methods may do something 
useful here.

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