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From: Alex Romosan <romosan@sycorax.lbl.gov>
Subject: Re: no backlight on radeon after recent kernel "upgrade"s
Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2007 20:58:29 -0800
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Richard Purdie <rpurdie@rpsys.net> writes:

> If FB_RADEON_BACKLIGHT wasn't set for 2.6.20, can you try 2.6.21-rc1
> with that option disabled?

i've disabled FB_RADEON_BACKLIGHT (FB_BACKLIGHT also got deselected)
and i managed to boot into 2.6.21-rc1 and have a working backlight.

--alex--

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