Re: [Test-Announce] Help test backlight control changes on old laptops in the upcoming kernel

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Hi!

On Monday, 07 November 2022 at 21:12, Hans de Goede wrote:
[...]
> If you want to help test please run the tests from the second blogpost:
> 
> https://hansdegoede.livejournal.com/27130.html
> 
> which is about trying to re-introduce the 6.1 change in a different
> form. Note you can run the requested tests with any recent(ish)
> kernel.
> 
> The 6.2 changes will most likely affect only really old laptops (from
> around 2005), so if possible please run the tests on older laptops.
> 
> So far only one laptop is known to be affected by the planned 6.2
> changes and that is a laptop from 2003, for which I will add a DMI
> quirk to avoid that specific model from regressing in 6.2.

This is really cool! I'll try to set aside some time to test on an
ancient Dell XPS (pre-UEFI model) and on one Sony Vaio that has a
backlight flicker issue at low battery level[1].

[1] https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/drm/intel/-/issues/6325

Regards,
Dominik
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