From: Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org>
To: Zhang Rui <rui.zhang@intel.com>
Cc: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>,
"linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org" <linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: ACPI error messages
Date: Thu, 3 Jun 2010 15:16:43 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100603141643.GA768@srcf.ucam.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1275527406.9119.8724.camel@rzhang1-desktop>
On Thu, Jun 03, 2010 at 09:10:06AM +0800, Zhang Rui wrote:
> This is a BIOS bug to me. The code runs in this way:
>
> if (not Win7)
> good BIOS code
> else
> buggy BIOS code
>
> This is a regression because ACPI declares it's win7 compatible in
> 2.6.31. I'm afraid we can do nothing in Linux kernel to fix/workaround
> it. IMO, we should ping Asus to fix it in their new BIOS release.
So if you install Windows 7 on these machines, backlight control doesn't
work?
--
Matthew Garrett | mjg59@srcf.ucam.org
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-06-03 14:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <Pine.LNX.4.44L0.1006012126370.32192-300000@netrider.rowland.org>
2010-06-02 2:13 ` ACPI error messages Zhang Rui
2010-06-02 15:10 ` Alan Stern
2010-06-03 1:10 ` Zhang Rui
2010-06-03 1:52 ` Alan Stern
2010-06-03 14:16 ` Matthew Garrett [this message]
2010-06-04 1:03 ` Zhang Rui
2010-06-04 14:52 ` Alan Stern
2010-06-07 1:12 ` Zhang Rui
2010-06-08 18:42 ` Alan Stern
2010-06-01 13:11 Alan Stern
2010-06-02 0:59 ` Zhang Rui
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