From: Zhang Rui <rui.zhang@intel.com>
To: Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org>
Cc: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>,
"linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org" <linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: ACPI error messages
Date: Fri, 04 Jun 2010 09:03:24 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1275613404.19052.1028.camel@rzhang1-desktop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100603141643.GA768@srcf.ucam.org>
On Thu, 2010-06-03 at 22:16 +0800, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 03, 2010 at 09:10:06AM +0800, Zhang Rui wrote:
>
> > This is a BIOS bug to me. The code runs in this way:
> >
> > if (not Win7)
> > good BIOS code
> > else
> > buggy BIOS code
> >
> > This is a regression because ACPI declares it's win7 compatible in
> > 2.6.31. I'm afraid we can do nothing in Linux kernel to fix/workaround
> > it. IMO, we should ping Asus to fix it in their new BIOS release.
>
> So if you install Windows 7 on these machines, backlight control doesn't
> work?
>
I've heard that win7 prefers the ACPI wmi driver instead of ACPI video
driver for backlight control. But not sure if win7 prefers the platform
driver as well.
Alan,
can you help me verify if the backlight control works well when you boot
w/ acpi_backlight=vendor and w/o acpi_osi="!Windwos 2009"?
thanks,
rui
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-06-04 1:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <Pine.LNX.4.44L0.1006012126370.32192-300000@netrider.rowland.org>
2010-06-02 2:13 ` ACPI error messages Zhang Rui
2010-06-02 15:10 ` Alan Stern
2010-06-03 1:10 ` Zhang Rui
2010-06-03 1:52 ` Alan Stern
2010-06-03 14:16 ` Matthew Garrett
2010-06-04 1:03 ` Zhang Rui [this message]
2010-06-04 14:52 ` Alan Stern
2010-06-07 1:12 ` Zhang Rui
2010-06-08 18:42 ` Alan Stern
2010-06-01 13:11 Alan Stern
2010-06-02 0:59 ` Zhang Rui
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