From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Matthew Garrett Subject: Re: [Acpi4asus-user] 1005PE's and backlight controls Date: Wed, 14 Apr 2010 17:40:30 +0100 Message-ID: <20100414164030.GA14758@srcf.ucam.org> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from cavan.codon.org.uk ([93.93.128.6]:56454 "EHLO cavan.codon.org.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756318Ab0DNQke (ORCPT ); Wed, 14 Apr 2010 12:40:34 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-acpi-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org To: Alan Jenkins Cc: Chris Bagwell , ACPI Devel Maling List , acpi4asus-user@lists.sourceforge.net, platform-driver-x86@vger.kernel.org On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 05:23:22PM +0100, Alan Jenkins wrote: > I suggest you contact the ACPI video maintainer, Zhang Rui > , and attach the output of "dmidecode". The best > way would probably be to report the problem on bugzilla.kernel.org (on > the ACPI video driver). > > I think it will indeed be possible to blacklist your machine, because > someone has already anticipated this problem :-). dmi blacklisting is almost certainly wrong. It's more likely that eeepc-laptop shouldn't be registering a backlight if acpi_video_backlight_support() is true, but we'll then want to investigate whether we also need to send the keyboard events through. -- Matthew Garrett | mjg59@srcf.ucam.org