Re: [Acpi4asus-user] 1005PE's and backlight controls

[Corentin Chary <corentin.chary@gmail.com>]

On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 6:40 PM, Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org> wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 05:23:22PM +0100, Alan Jenkins wrote:
>
>> I suggest you contact the ACPI video maintainer, Zhang Rui
>> <rui.zhang@intel.com>, 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.
>

Hum, it isn't (or maybe I didn't understand what you mean ?)
> if (!acpi_video_backlight_support())
>                result = eeepc_backlight_init(eeepc);



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