From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Matthew Garrett Subject: Re: Lenovo ThinkPads need acpi_osi="Linux" Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2008 01:50:09 +0000 Message-ID: <20080114015009.GA2317@srcf.ucam.org> References: <20080112022348.GC27524@khazad-dum.debian.net> <200801120416.08631.lenb@kernel.org> <20080113165801.GA4132@ucw.cz> <20080113234129.GE10693@khazad-dum.debian.net> <20080114003553.GA1698@srcf.ucam.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from cavan.codon.org.uk ([78.32.9.130]:51299 "EHLO vavatch.codon.org.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753008AbYANBuS (ORCPT ); Sun, 13 Jan 2008 20:50:18 -0500 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20080114003553.GA1698@srcf.ucam.org> Sender: linux-acpi-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org To: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh Cc: Pavel Machek , Len Brown , linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, Jan 14, 2008 at 12:35:54AM +0000, Matthew Garrett wrote: > No. This breaks on the R50e, at least - I suspect it'd also have > problems on any nvidia based machines, but I don't have one to hand at > the moment. It can be set at runtime already. Just to clarify this further, in the relatively near-term future we're not going to want the low-level ACPI code to do anything video-related on a lot of hardware. The in-kernel modesetting code for Intel machines will be able to handle this significantly more effectively. -- Matthew Garrett | mjg59@srcf.ucam.org