From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755614AbYIYUQp (ORCPT ); Thu, 25 Sep 2008 16:16:45 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753448AbYIYUQi (ORCPT ); Thu, 25 Sep 2008 16:16:38 -0400 Received: from brak.cowlabs.com ([208.96.51.45]:46715 "EHLO brak.cowlabs.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753234AbYIYUQh (ORCPT ); Thu, 25 Sep 2008 16:16:37 -0400 Date: Thu, 25 Sep 2008 13:16:27 -0700 From: carbonated beverage To: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh Cc: Matthew Garrett , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: CONFIG_ACPI_VIDEO on Thinkpad blanks display. Message-ID: <20080925201627.GA19205@net-ronin.org> References: <20080925060244.GA18945@net-ronin.org> <20080925070741.GA22376@net-ronin.org> <20080925100746.GA13185@srcf.ucam.org> <20080925190930.GA17184@net-ronin.org> <20080925195820.GD30858@khazad-dum.debian.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20080925195820.GD30858@khazad-dum.debian.net> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 04:58:20PM -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > Well, we do give you a way out: do not load ACPI video, and load > thinkpad-acpi with the proper parameters to enable its backlight control (if > it is getting disabled by default). Check the docs. Thanks, I'll give this a shot. > Your X is broken, and in an extremely hideous way. You could try to get it > to disable ACPI key support, or you can make sure nothing EVER sends ACPI > video events to it. That means you must not use the ACPI video module in > your kernel until you install a fixed X.org. Okay, I'll see what happens. -- DN Daniel