Re: Broken Dell BIOSes (was: Re: ACPI question)

[Matthew Garrett <mjg59-1xO5oi07KQx4cg9Nei1l7Q@public.gmane.org>]

On Sat, Nov 19, 2005 at 11:40:11AM +0100, Erik Slagter wrote:

> AFAIK many laptops (not only Dell) show this behaviour, at least while
> actually suspending, they either do not turn off the backlight, or do
> not turn them back on after resume. I guess "windows drivers" all fix
> this. Or maybe lack of linux acpi support? Anyway if you have a
> "suspend" supported video card with X driver, it will work nonetheless
> (like ati) because the driver will do the right thing or otherwise there
> are some tools around to explicitly turn on/off the backlight.

That's an entirely separate issue - Dells do this when you close the 
lid, even if you're not suspending them.

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Matthew Garrett | mjg59-1xO5oi07KQx4cg9Nei1l7Q@public.gmane.org


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