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.Dd February 16, 2011 .Dt ACPIWMI 4 .Os .Sh NAME .Nm acpiwmi .Nd Windows Management Instrumentation support for .Tn ACPI .Sh SYNOPSIS .Cd "acpiwmi* at acpi?" .Cd "acpiwmibus* at acpiwmi?" .Cd "wmidell* at acpiwmibus?" .Cd "wmieeepc* at acpiwmibus?" .Cd "wmihp* at acpiwmibus?" .Cd "wmimsi* at acpiwmibus?" .Sh DESCRIPTION The .Nm device driver provides an .Tn ACPI interface for Windows Management Instrumentation
q Tn WMI . The .Tn ACPI .Tn WMI interface is typically used to support vendor specific features found in various laptops.
p The following .Tn WMI mappings are supported: l -tag -width "wmidell " -offset indent t Sy wmidell Dell laptops t Sy wmieeepc Some models of Asus Eee PC t Sy wmihp Hewlett-Packard laptops t Sy wmimsi MSI laptops .El
p The functionality varies from vendor to vendor. Typically the interface is used for function and hotkey handling, but additional features may be present. .Sh SEE ALSO .Xr acpi 4 , .Xr acpidalb 4 .Rs .%A Microsoft Corporation .%D December 4, 2001 .%T Windows Instrumentation: WMI and ACPI .%U http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/system/pnppwr/wmi/wmi-acpi.mspx .Re .Sh HISTORY The .Nm device driver appeared in .Nx 6.0 . .Sh AUTHORS .An Jukka Ruohonen .Aq jruohonen@iki.fi wrote .Nm and most of the mappings. .Sh CAVEATS While .Tn WMI should provide a certain degree of portability across laptop models from a particular vendor, there is no guarantee that the mappings are functional in all models.
p The .Sy wmihp driver may conflict with .Xr hpqlb 4 .