Re: VGA patch by Bruno Ducrot -- no success yet

[Bruno Ducrot <ducrot-kk6yZipjEM5g9hUCZPvPmw@public.gmane.org>]

On Fri, Feb 13, 2004 at 12:04:52AM +0100, Georg C. F. Greve wrote:
>  || On Thu, 12 Feb 2004 23:37:06 +0100
>  || Bruno Ducrot <ducrot-kk6yZipjEM5g9hUCZPvPmw@public.gmane.org> wrote: 
> 
>  >> cat ./LCDD/brightness
>  >> <not supported>
> 
>  bd> For an LCD device, that not very fun unfortunately :(
> 
> I'm not sure how these relate to each other, but we're talking ASUS
> M2N here, which uses the acpi4asus code, in which
> 
>  /proc/acpi/asus/
>  |-- brn
>  |-- disp
>  |-- info
>  |-- lcd
>  `-- mled
> 
> exist. And therefore
> 
>  /proc/acpi/asus/brn
> 
> normally regulates background display brightness for the LCD, while
> lcd toggles the backlight on/off. Unfortunately both have no effect on
> the dead screen after S3.
> 
> Don't know whether/how this interacts with your code.

Well, then I really need to make one marked 'medium' of the TODO list
which read:
- implement an interface so that external modules can be made, like the
  asus, toshiba specifics.

At least for the asus case.

>  >> cat ./ROM
>  >> <TODO>
> 
>  bd> Well, that need to be done as said, even though in fact that is
>  bd> really uncommon though.
> 
> I know -- just wanted to give you the complete picture. .)

At least it don't oops :)

Thanks,

-- 
Bruno Ducrot

--  Which is worse:  ignorance or apathy?
--  Don't know.  Don't care.


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