From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Yves-Alexis Perez Subject: Re: Check for ACPI backlight support otherwise use vendor ACPIdrivers - version 4 Date: Tue, 5 Aug 2008 14:00:30 +0200 Message-ID: <20080805120030.GA10775@corsac.net> References: <1217605083-31003-1-git-send-email-trenn@suse.de> <20080805000151.GJ24927@khazad-dum.debian.net> <1217915753.8381.9.camel@hidalgo> <200808051113.44533.trenn@suse.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from molly.corsac.net ([81.57.48.219]:53549 "EHLO molly.corsac.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1758678AbYHEMAd (ORCPT ); Tue, 5 Aug 2008 08:00:33 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200808051113.44533.trenn@suse.de> Sender: linux-acpi-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org To: Thomas Renninger Cc: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh , Zhang Rui , ak@linux.intel.com, nokos@gmx.net, linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org, mjg59@srcf.ucam.org On Tue, Aug 05, 2008 at 11:13:42AM +0200, Thomas Renninger wrote: > On Tuesday 05 August 2008 07:55:53 Yves-Alexis Perez wrote: > ... > > Anyway, I wasn't yet able to test Matthew's patches, they're not yet in > > drm-2.6/master. > This should definitely be the next step. > If this fails we should still try to dig there why it is not working. How can I test (and maybe debug) your patches then? > > I agree, that only if we heavily get stuck there it would make sense > to look at thinkpad_acpi to enable/workaround backlight switching with > IGD devices. Hmhm, I assume that, under vista, IGD and Nvidia ones are managed the same (as far as I understood it, and using acpi backlight management), so I guess it would be a "last chance" solution? Cheers, -- Yves-Alexis