Re: Check for ACPI backlight support otherwise use vendor ACPIdrivers - version 4

Yves-Alexis Perez
2008-08-05T12:00:33Z

On Tue, Aug 05, 2008 at 11:13:42AM +0200, Thomas Renninger wrote:
> On Tuesday 05 August 2008 07:55:53 Yves-Alexis Perez wrote:
> ...
> > Anyway, I wasn't yet able to test Matthew's patches, they're not yet in
> > drm-2.6/master.
> This should definitely be the next step.
> If this fails we should still try to dig there why it is not working.

How can I test (and maybe debug) your patches then?

>
> I agree, that only if we heavily get stuck there it would make sense
> to look at thinkpad_acpi to enable/workaround backlight switching with
> IGD devices.

Hmhm, I assume that, under vista, IGD and Nvidia ones are managed the
same (as far as I understood it, and using acpi backlight management),
so I guess it would be a "last chance" solution?

Cheers,
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Yves-Alexis