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From: Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org, bugme-daemon@bugzilla.kernel.org,
	khashayar.lists@gmail.com, "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>,
	Zhang Rui <rui.zhang@intel.com>
Subject: Re: [Bugme-new] [Bug 12235] New: /sys/devices/virtual/backlight/acpi_video0/brightness has it backwards
Date: Tue, 16 Dec 2008 20:55:32 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20081216205532.GB14332@srcf.ucam.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20081216100023.2e437c8c.akpm@linux-foundation.org>

On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 10:00:23AM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:

> OK, that's weird.  I have a suspicion that we're about to find out that
> this is intentional, but I don't know what the fix is..

My recollection is that some BIOSes provide the list of brightness 
values in reverse order - someone posted a patch to sort them in-kernel, 
but I can't remember what happened to it. xbacklight will work because 
it triggers a direct write to the hardware if the acpi driver isn't 
loaded.

-- 
Matthew Garrett | mjg59@srcf.ucam.org

  reply	other threads:[~2008-12-16 20:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <bug-12235-10286@http.bugzilla.kernel.org/>
2008-12-16 18:00 ` [Bugme-new] [Bug 12235] New: /sys/devices/virtual/backlight/acpi_video0/brightness has it backwards Andrew Morton
2008-12-16 20:55   ` Matthew Garrett [this message]
2008-12-17  0:57     ` Zhang Rui
2008-12-17  9:44       ` Khashayar Naderehvandi
2008-12-17 19:56         ` Khashayar Naderehvandi

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