From: Mattia Dongili <malattia@linux.it>
To: Norbert Preining <preining@logic.at>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
ACPI Devel Mailing List <linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: regression since 2.6.36: backlight in sony-laptop not working
Date: Wed, 10 Nov 2010 12:58:33 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20101110035833.GB3029@kamineko.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20101104142915.GC7650@gamma.logic.tuwien.ac.at>
On Thu, Nov 04, 2010 at 11:29:15PM +0900, Norbert Preining wrote:
> Hi Mattia, hi all,
>
> (please keep me in Cc)
>
> when switching from 2.6.36 to 2.6.37-rc1(+git) I realize that I cannot
> adjust the backlight anymore. Before this was possible with the
> Fn-F5 and Fn-F6 keys, but now nothing happens.
It's ages sony_laptop doesn't change, it may be some other change in the
acpi layer that causes this.
> acpi_listen does not issue anything when these keys are pressed.
How about the input layer? /proc/acpi/event is deprecated and you should
not rely on that.
But anyway, it's a Fn key issue, not backlight control itself, right?
Can you change brightness echoing to the sysfs files directly?
> Is there any obvious oversight from my side?
don't know, can you bisect it?
> config is attached.
can you attach dmesg output after loading sony_laptop with debug=1 and
pressing the brightness keys?
--
mattia
:wq!
next parent reply other threads:[~2010-11-10 3:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <20101104142915.GC7650@gamma.logic.tuwien.ac.at>
2010-11-10 3:58 ` Mattia Dongili [this message]
2010-11-11 23:50 ` regression since 2.6.36: backlight in sony-laptop not working Norbert Preining
2010-11-12 3:44 ` Matthew Garrett
2010-11-12 3:50 ` Norbert Preining
2010-11-12 3:57 ` Matthew Garrett
2010-11-12 4:14 ` Norbert Preining
2010-11-12 4:22 ` Mattia Dongili
2010-11-12 4:39 ` Norbert Preining
2010-11-12 12:17 ` Mattia Dongili
2010-11-16 5:16 ` Norbert Preining
2010-11-16 14:18 ` Mattia Dongili
2010-11-16 17:41 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2010-11-17 6:30 ` Norbert Preining
2010-11-17 6:33 ` Norbert Preining
2010-11-17 6:52 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2010-11-18 11:04 ` Mattia Dongili
2010-11-18 13:34 ` Mattia Dongili
2010-11-18 18:06 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2010-11-17 7:12 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2010-11-12 7:38 ` Zhang Rui
2010-11-12 10:10 ` Norbert Preining
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