Re: 2.6.0-test9 regression: panic on Fn+F7 hotkey

Ducrot Bruno
2003-11-03T11:10:04Z

On Mon, Nov 03, 2003 at 11:58:03AM +0100, Nikolaus Filus wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 03, 2003 at 10:37:48AM +0100, Luca Capello wrote:
> >Hello, maybe it could be useful even if the thread is (quite) old.
> >
> >on 10/27/03 18:08, Karol Kozimor wrote:
> >>Pressing Fn+F7 to turn the LCD on / off causes 2.6.0-test9 to panic.
> >I've an ASUS Centrino M3N, bios 0203A (20030514), Debian
> >testing/unstable, kernel 2.6.0-test9 w/ ACPI 20031002. When I press
> >Fn+F7 the LCD correctly switchs on/off and I don't have any kernel panic.
> >
> >Just you to know :-)
>
>
> BTW: Is this a general ACPI feature or BIOS-related? I mean, I have a
> Toshiba Satellite 3000-601 and was NEVER able to switch to/from external vga
> using linux (no 2.4 and no 2.6 version!). The display freezes, the fan goes
> on and that was it .... :(
>

That depend. For the Satellite 3000-601, this is even the two:
the toshiba will got an acpi event from the embeded controller
and the portion of the AML related to will call a smi handler...

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