From: Dan Carpenter <error27@gmail.com>
To: Patrick Schaaf <bof@bof.de>
Cc: chris@chris-wilson.co.uk, mjg@redhat.com, rpurdie@rpsys.net,
kernelorg@bof.de, intel-gfx@lists.freedesktop.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, keithp@keithp.com
Subject: Re: back light conflict i915 vs dell-laptop
Date: Sun, 28 Nov 2010 22:36:22 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20101128193622.GC30799@bicker> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1290967527.4456.8.camel@lat1>
On Sun, Nov 28, 2010 at 07:05:27PM +0100, Patrick Schaaf wrote:
> On Thu, 2010-11-25 at 12:33 +0300, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> > Patrick Schaaf has reported that the i915 driver is setting his
> > backlight very dim when he starts GDM.
> >
> > https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=23472
> >
> > It should be the dell-laptop platform driver controlling his backlight.
> >
> > Gnome tries to restore the backlight settings through the dell_laptop
> > interface in sysfs but it fails. (Because the platform hardware refuses
> > to set the settings to what it thinks they already are).
>
Keith Packard wrote in another thread that there were some patches
to address this in his git repo:
git://people.freedesktop.org/~keithp/linux-2.6 drm-intel-next
regards,
dan carpenter
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-11-28 19:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-11-25 9:33 back light conflict i915 vs dell-laptop Dan Carpenter
2010-11-25 14:41 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2010-11-28 18:05 ` Patrick Schaaf
2010-11-28 19:36 ` Dan Carpenter [this message]
2010-11-28 18:52 ` Patrick Schaaf
2011-01-11 11:31 ` Patrick Schaaf
2011-01-11 13:33 ` Chris Wilson
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