From: Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org>
To: Soeren Sonnenburg <sonne@debian.org>
Cc: nicolas@boichat.ch, felipe_alfaro@linuxmail.org,
Julien BLACHE <jb@jblache.org>,
Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Brightness control for MacBook Pro - Nvidia 9400
Date: Thu, 11 Feb 2010 20:44:41 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100211204441.GA5956@srcf.ucam.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1265920725.7103.7.camel@no>
On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 09:38:45PM +0100, Soeren Sonnenburg wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> I am booting a MacBookPro5,3 using elilo and efifb. Now I'd like to use
> pommed to control display brightness (which won't work). Digging around
> in mbp_nvidia_bl.c I figured out that tries to control the geforce 9600M
> instead of the currently active geforece 9400m
So, first of all, use nouveau instead. But moving on...
> 02:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation G96 [GeForce 9600M GT] (rev a1)
> 03:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation C79 [GeForce 9400M] (rev b1)
>
> Does anyone have an idea which bytes to tweak to change brightness
> levels for the 9400? Seems like 0x52f does not work - at least
> setpci -s 03:00.0 0x52f.B=10 fails...
Those are mmio registers, not PCI config ones. You won't be able to
change them with setpci.
--
Matthew Garrett | mjg59@srcf.ucam.org
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-02-11 20:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-02-11 20:38 Brightness control for MacBook Pro - Nvidia 9400 Soeren Sonnenburg
2010-02-11 20:44 ` Matthew Garrett [this message]
2010-02-11 23:13 ` Soeren Sonnenburg
2010-02-12 11:18 ` Julien BLACHE
2010-02-12 14:14 ` Matthew Garrett
2010-02-12 16:25 ` Julien BLACHE
2010-02-12 16:28 ` Matthew Garrett
2010-02-12 16:42 ` Soeren Sonnenburg
2010-02-12 16:44 ` Matthew Garrett
2010-02-12 16:55 ` Soeren Sonnenburg
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