On Mon, 01 Oct 2007, Matthew Garrett wrote: > On Sat, Aug 25, 2007 at 02:08:14AM -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > > On Fri, 17 Aug 2007, Josh Mandel wrote: > > > is still fooled when I close the laptop's lid or run "xset dpms force > > > off". In these cases, the screen brightness (once restored from the > > > off state) shoots up to 100%, but the thinkpad_acpi continues to > > > report the previous value. I should mention that I'm running BIOS > > > 2.12 and the "video" module is loaded on my system. (Is loading this > > > module a mistake?) > > > > THAT might also be Lenovo doing a botched up job in the DSDT. If this is > > true, it simply means you can say bye-bye to brightness support on > > thinkpad-acpi for the x61/t61 and later, there is only so much breakage I > > will tolerate before I decide they do NOT care about it and will keep > > breaking things further and further, and just drop the support. > > I think this is actually an issue with the -intel X driver, which pokes > the chipset backlight registers directly and overrides the platform > legacy backlight controller. > > Still, I suspect that the best approach to handling the backlight stuff > on new Thinkpads is just to leave it up to the video extension. Just > check if _BCL, _BCM and _BQC are implemented and then refuse to create > the backlight? I will check for that. AND (_BCL, _BCM, _BCQ, _BQC) or OR (_BCL, _BCM, _BCQ, _BQC) ? (BQC is there because Micosoft are a bunch of irresponsible **** and got it wrong in some reference document). -- "One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot Henrique Holschuh ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2005. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ ibm-acpi-devel mailing list ibm-acpi-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ibm-acpi-devel
