Re: CONFIG_ACPI_VIDEO on Thinkpad blanks display.

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2008-09-25T20:16:45Z

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