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From: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@hmh.eng.br>
Subject: Re: no backlight on radeon after recent kernel "upgrade"s
Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2007 21:17:06 -0200
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To: Richard Purdie <rpurdie@rpsys.net>
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On Wed, 21 Feb 2007, Richard Purdie wrote:
> enabled. On a thinkpad, the backlight is probably under ACPI control.

BIOS+ACPI, actually.  Without ACPI video loaded, the firmware does
everything correctly.  With ACPI video, the firmware does it, then its
changes are clobbered over by ACPI video's.

If ibm-acpi is loaded, a backlight device "ibm" is added.  ibm-acpi's ibm
backlight device can change the display brightness.  It is *not* capable of
turning the backlight on or off, AFAIK.

BTW, some ThinkPads don't have a Radeon, but rather an Intel GM/GMX device.

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