Re: Re: Compaq Presario 2800T

Charl P. Botha
2002-08-06T08:16:19Z

On Tue, Aug 06, 2002 at 02:13:32AM -0400, Sourav K. Mandal wrote:
> On Mon, 2002-08-05 at 11:04, Kevin Fenzi wrote:
> Yeah, trying it out myself it seems like a DRI thing. Try
> turning off DRI in your XF86Config and see if it helps. You might have
> to reboot ... DRI doesn't work when coming back from suspend, and some
> things don't work once you run DRI. For me, once I run DRI the
> backlight refuses to turn off on lid close -- reboot fixes this.
>
> If that doesn't work, try switching to a text console.
>
> I have yet to apply Charl's patch, and so I alternate between DRI and
> no-DRI XF86Configs. I don't know if the patch fixes the backlight thing
> ...

FWIW, my dim/bright keys (Fn-F6 and Fn-F6) always work and the brightness
level is even retained across reboots. The binaries on
http://cpbotha.net/dri_reinit.html have been updated, although I doubt that
thet changes have to do with your brightness settings.

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