x60 backlight Re: [discuss] 2.6.19-rc1: known regressions (v2)

Pavel Machek
2006-10-08T07:12:54Z

On Sat 07-10-06 23:46:21, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> This email lists some known regressions in 2.6.19-rc1 compared to 2.6.18
> that are not yet fixed Linus' tree.
>
> If you find your name in the Cc header, you are either submitter of one
> of the bugs, maintainer of an affectected subsystem or driver, a patch
> of you was declared guilty for a breakage or I'm considering you in any
> other way possibly involved with one or more of these issues.
>
> Due to the huge amount of recipients, please trim the Cc when answering.
...
> Subject : T60 stops triggering any ACPI events
> References : http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/10/4/425
> Submitter : "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@mellanox.co.il>
> Status : unknown
>
>
> Subject : thinkpad x60: brightness no longer adjustable in 2.6.18-git
> References : http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/10/2/300
> Submitter : Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
> Status : unknown, related to the issue above?

Strange, problem went away after reboot. I guess I'll write it off as
an acpi glitch... there's definitely something strange going on with
backlight around s2ram: during normal operation, backlight changes are
fast. After s2ram, backlight change from keyboard takes 300msec or so.

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