From: Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org>
To: Julien BLACHE <jb@jblache.org>
Cc: Soeren Sonnenburg <sonne@debian.org>,
nicolas@boichat.ch, felipe_alfaro@linuxmail.org,
Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Brightness control for MacBook Pro - Nvidia 9400
Date: Fri, 12 Feb 2010 14:14:57 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100212141457.GA18714@srcf.ucam.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <878wayk8hn.fsf@sonic.technologeek.org>
On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 12:18:28PM +0100, Julien BLACHE wrote:
> Soeren Sonnenburg <sonne@debian.org> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> > 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
>
> If you know how one can determine which GPU is active, let me know. I
> don't have this information at the moment.
There's a _DSM method in the ACPI tables that you need to execute.
> I'm not sure this method actually works without the legacy BIOS. IIRC
> that method was determined by reverse engineering the Windows drivers,
> which means the legacy BIOS was in use.
Ah, yes - sorry, I'd forgotten that this used the smi horror. nouveau
should drive the chip brightness natively, so it's probably better to
figure out why it's breaking rather than worry about this...
--
Matthew Garrett | mjg59@srcf.ucam.org
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-02-12 14:15 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
2010-02-11 23:13 ` Soeren Sonnenburg
2010-02-12 11:18 ` Julien BLACHE
2010-02-12 14:14 ` Matthew Garrett [this message]
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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