From: Yu Luming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Signed-off-by: Luming Yu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "Antonino A. Daplas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Greg KH <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Signed-off-by: Len Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- Documentation/video-output.txt | 34 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 files changed, 34 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) create mode 100644 Documentation/video-output.txt
diff --git a/Documentation/video-output.txt b/Documentation/video-output.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..e517011 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/video-output.txt @@ -0,0 +1,34 @@ + + Video Output Switcher Control + ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ + 2006 [EMAIL PROTECTED] + +The output sysfs class driver provides an abstract video output layer that +can be used to hook platform specific methods to enable/disable video output +device through common sysfs interface. For example, on my IBM ThinkPad T42 +laptop, The ACPI video driver registered its output devices and read/write +method for 'state' with output sysfs class. The user interface under sysfs is: + +linux:/sys/class/video_output # tree . +. +|-- CRT0 +| |-- device -> ../../../devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:01.0 +| |-- state +| |-- subsystem -> ../../../class/video_output +| `-- uevent +|-- DVI0 +| |-- device -> ../../../devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:01.0 +| |-- state +| |-- subsystem -> ../../../class/video_output +| `-- uevent +|-- LCD0 +| |-- device -> ../../../devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:01.0 +| |-- state +| |-- subsystem -> ../../../class/video_output +| `-- uevent +`-- TV0 + |-- device -> ../../../devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:01.0 + |-- state + |-- subsystem -> ../../../class/video_output + `-- uevent + -- 1.5.0.rc3.39.gec804 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-acpi" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
