From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Marco Chiappero Subject: Re: Need help debugging Sony Vaio VPCY2 backlight control problem Date: Mon, 04 Jul 2011 12:58:53 +0200 Message-ID: <4E119CED.1060109@absence.it> References: <4E0E2155.4070508@fedoraproject.org> <4E0E4637.7000902@absence.it> <4E117DF7.2000602@fedoraproject.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="------------060005020207060501080408" Return-path: In-Reply-To: <4E117DF7.2000602@fedoraproject.org> Sender: platform-driver-x86-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Michel Alexandre Salim Cc: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org, platform-driver-x86 , Mattia Dongili List-Id: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------060005020207060501080408 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Il 04/07/2011 10:46, Michel Alexandre Salim ha scritto: > Hi Marco, Hi Michel, > Let me know if you need anything else. Once we can at least pinpoint the > problem to the right subsystem, I'll add these attachments to the > correct bug report. Both this behavior and the ASL is confusing, so it's not easy to say where is the problem exactly, but BNEN, BNCM, BNDM, BNVE are set to 0. This affects for sure the SBRT/GBRT methods used by sony-laptop (that's why they do not work), I can't say about _BCM/_BQC methods used by the acpi video driver (which is preferable). However, since _BCM calls no GFX methods and only acts on the EC, it might start to work after setting those bits to 1. The real question is why those bits are low, is there any issue during the EC initialization? That said, the issue doesn't seem to belong to sony-laptop and video drivers. You can try to temporarily fix the problem setting to 1 those bits (but it is not a solution), just compile and run the attached program. 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