From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756244AbZDOVAh (ORCPT ); Wed, 15 Apr 2009 17:00:37 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755082AbZDOVA1 (ORCPT ); Wed, 15 Apr 2009 17:00:27 -0400 Received: from cavan.codon.org.uk ([93.93.128.6]:52515 "EHLO vavatch.codon.org.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754247AbZDOVA0 (ORCPT ); Wed, 15 Apr 2009 17:00:26 -0400 Date: Wed, 15 Apr 2009 22:00:17 +0100 From: Matthew Garrett To: Niel Lambrechts Cc: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh , yakui_zhao , Andrew Morton , "linux.kernel" , "linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org" Subject: Re: 2.6.30-rc1 (latest git): thinkpad-acpi: cannot control brightness with hotkeys (BISECTED) Message-ID: <20090415210017.GA32594@srcf.ucam.org> References: <20090412161448.GC26502@khazad-dum.debian.net> <49E234ED.5010105@gmail.com> <1239585695.5564.5.camel@localhost.localdomain> <49E3575A.60204@gmail.com> <20090413203450.GC16152@khazad-dum.debian.net> <49E5234E.5070303@gmail.com> <20090415164939.GA27807@srcf.ucam.org> <49E63BCB.9090801@gmail.com> <20090415200125.GA31483@srcf.ucam.org> <49E64A28.8070402@gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <49E64A28.8070402@gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.12-2006-07-14 X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: mjg59@codon.org.uk X-SA-Exim-Scanned: No (on vavatch.codon.org.uk); SAEximRunCond expanded to false Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 10:57:12PM +0200, Niel Lambrechts wrote: > So is there any chance of getting this fix merged any time soon (at > least before 2.6.30 is out)? Yeah, I'd hope it's merged before .30. I've sent it to the maintainers. > I'd love to use KMS, but I have no idea how to troubleshoot the freeze > I'm getting after the main gdm login screen. Or is there still a future > i915 milestone(s) to be reached before I can realistically do > i915.modeset=1, given the large amount of activity around this in recent > times? There's still a lot of work being done in this area, and it can be a bit sensitive to you using the correct X driver version with a given kernel version. -- Matthew Garrett | mjg59@srcf.ucam.org