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* Macbook Pro 5,3 Video Issues
@ 2012-03-20 22:09 ` Shea Levy
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From: Shea Levy @ 2012-03-20 22:09 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: linux-kernel-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA,
	nouveau-PD4FTy7X32lNgt0PjOBp9y5qC8QIuHrW

Hello,

On my system (Linux 3.3, booting in EFI mode, using Nouveau with 
nouveau.noaccel=1 due to 
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=27501 ), I can't figure out 
how to change the backlight or switch which of the two graphics cards (I 
have an Nvidia 9600M GT and a 9400M, both are recognized by nouveau but 
only the 9400M is ever used) Linux uses for the framebuffer or X uses 
for the output. I have /sys/class/backlight/nv_backlight, and writting 
to nv_backlight/brightness does change the value in 
nv_backlight/actual_brightness, but no actual screen changes occur. I'm 
using the in-tree staging version of nouveau, so I wasn't sure which ML 
this should go to.

Cheers,
Shea Levy

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* Macbook Pro 5,3 Video Issues
@ 2012-03-20 22:09 ` Shea Levy
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 3+ messages in thread
From: Shea Levy @ 2012-03-20 22:09 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: linux-kernel, nouveau

Hello,

On my system (Linux 3.3, booting in EFI mode, using Nouveau with 
nouveau.noaccel=1 due to 
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=27501 ), I can't figure out 
how to change the backlight or switch which of the two graphics cards (I 
have an Nvidia 9600M GT and a 9400M, both are recognized by nouveau but 
only the 9400M is ever used) Linux uses for the framebuffer or X uses 
for the output. I have /sys/class/backlight/nv_backlight, and writting 
to nv_backlight/brightness does change the value in 
nv_backlight/actual_brightness, but no actual screen changes occur. I'm 
using the in-tree staging version of nouveau, so I wasn't sure which ML 
this should go to.

Cheers,
Shea Levy

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* Re: Macbook Pro 5,3 Video Issues
  2012-03-20 22:09 ` Shea Levy
  (?)
@ 2012-03-21  2:47 ` Seth Forshee
  -1 siblings, 0 replies; 3+ messages in thread
From: Seth Forshee @ 2012-03-21  2:47 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Shea Levy; +Cc: linux-kernel, nouveau

On Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 06:09:07PM -0400, Shea Levy wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> On my system (Linux 3.3, booting in EFI mode, using Nouveau with
> nouveau.noaccel=1 due to
> https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=27501 ), I can't figure
> out how to change the backlight or switch which of the two graphics
> cards (I have an Nvidia 9600M GT and a 9400M, both are recognized by
> nouveau but only the 9400M is ever used) Linux uses for the
> framebuffer or X uses for the output. I have
> /sys/class/backlight/nv_backlight, and writting to
> nv_backlight/brightness does change the value in
> nv_backlight/actual_brightness, but no actual screen changes occur.
> I'm using the in-tree staging version of nouveau, so I wasn't sure
> which ML this should go to.

Both of these are probably controlled by the gmux device on your
machine. I've submitted a driver that gets the backlight working [1]. I
haven't worked on the GPU muxing yet though, because the machine I'm
working with (MacBook Pro 8,2) has graphics issues under EFI boot that I
haven't had time to sort out.

Seth

[1] https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/3/16/388

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