From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Miller Subject: Re: no backlight on radeon after recent kernel "upgrade"s Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2007 09:28:12 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <20070222.092812.112620509.davem@davemloft.net> References: <20070222020951.GR7920@ca-server1.us.oracle.com> Reply-To: linux-fbdev-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from sc8-sf-mx2-b.sourceforge.net ([10.3.1.92] helo=mail.sourceforge.net) by sc8-sf-list1-new.sourceforge.net with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HKHjx-00083r-5F for linux-fbdev-devel@lists.sourceforge.net; Thu, 22 Feb 2007 09:28:21 -0800 Received: from [74.93.104.97] (helo=sunset.davemloft.net) by mail.sourceforge.net with esmtp (Exim 4.44) id 1HKHjs-0000KQ-T0 for linux-fbdev-devel@lists.sourceforge.net; Thu, 22 Feb 2007 09:28:17 -0800 In-Reply-To: List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: linux-fbdev-devel-bounces@lists.sourceforge.net Errors-To: linux-fbdev-devel-bounces@lists.sourceforge.net To: jsimmons@infradead.org Cc: linux-fbdev-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, Joel.Becker@oracle.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, rpurdie@rpsys.net, akpm@linux-foundation.org, lists@onerussian.com From: James Simmons Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2007 15:55:24 +0000 (GMT) > I just tested various confirations of backlight support. Backlight is > ALWAYS selected by default when you select a particular fbdev driver that > has backlight support. You just have the option to turn it off if you > want. These problems are showing up because of stale .config files. BTW, enabling the backlight option broke things for me with Radeon on sparc64 too, FWIW. And when the option was presented to me for the first time, the default was yes, so that's what I gave it. This is what a lot of users would see. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751367AbXBVR2O (ORCPT ); Thu, 22 Feb 2007 12:28:14 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751382AbXBVR2O (ORCPT ); Thu, 22 Feb 2007 12:28:14 -0500 Received: from 74-93-104-97-Washington.hfc.comcastbusiness.net ([74.93.104.97]:41215 "EHLO sunset.davemloft.net" rhost-flags-OK-FAIL-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751367AbXBVR2N (ORCPT ); Thu, 22 Feb 2007 12:28:13 -0500 Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2007 09:28:12 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <20070222.092812.112620509.davem@davemloft.net> To: jsimmons@infradead.org Cc: Joel.Becker@oracle.com, lists@onerussian.com, rpurdie@rpsys.net, akpm@linux-foundation.org, linux-fbdev-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [Linux-fbdev-devel] no backlight on radeon after recent kernel "upgrade"s From: David Miller In-Reply-To: References: <20070222020951.GR7920@ca-server1.us.oracle.com> X-Mailer: Mew version 5.1.52 on Emacs 21.4 / Mule 5.0 (SAKAKI) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: James Simmons Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2007 15:55:24 +0000 (GMT) > I just tested various confirations of backlight support. Backlight is > ALWAYS selected by default when you select a particular fbdev driver that > has backlight support. You just have the option to turn it off if you > want. These problems are showing up because of stale .config files. BTW, enabling the backlight option broke things for me with Radeon on sparc64 too, FWIW. And when the option was presented to me for the first time, the default was yes, so that's what I gave it. This is what a lot of users would see.