On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 4:00 PM, Carsten Emde <C.Emde at osadl.org> wrote: > On 06/11/2012 10:51 AM, Daniel Vetter wrote: >> I've updated my backlight-confusion branch with new patches for gen4 >> (it doesn't seem to work for these machines yet). Can you please test >> the updated branch? > > I have added an additional test rack (#6) to our QA farm (osadl.org/QA) and > populated this rack solely with notebooks that are equipped with Intel > graphics board: > > Slot #1: Lenovo T61/7661W4G, Intel GMA X3100 > Slot #2: IBM T601951-A47, Intel GMA 950 > Slot #4: Acer Homa/Extensa 5230E-901G16N, Intel GMA 4500MHD > Slot #5: Acer Morar/TravelMate 2410, Intel GMA 900 > Slot #6: Dell Inspirion 1300/0RJ272, Intel GMA 900 > Slot #7: Acer Aspire 5734Z, Intel GMA 4500M > > With the exception of slot #4 that runs a 3.2-based kernel, all other > notebooks run a 3.4-based kernel. The notebook in Slot #7 is the one with > the backlight headache. Unfortunately :-; no other notebook had any > backlight problem when running a vanilla kernel, even the two new Acers are > behaving well. > > In the meantime, however, I have received a report that the Acer 5732Z has > the same problem. I am sure that the reporter will be willing to help with > testing. Looks like the backlight problem is very specific to Acer Aspire > 573xZ. But I agree that a generic solution always is better than a quirk. > > I've checked out the backlight-confusion branch of your git tree and tested > it with and without the Acer quirk. I can report that the backlight works > correctly with either version. I will now contact the owner of the Acer > Aspire 5732Z and ask him to test the backlight-confusion branch without the > Acer quirk on his notebook as well. > > Do you wish me to do any other test? Well, the backlight-confusion branch had a bug and outright disabled the intel backlight :( drm-intel-next-queued should have fixes for all the backlight goofus I've accidentally created, so testing feedback on that branch would be highly appreciated. Thanks, Daniel -- Daniel Vetter daniel.vetter at ffwll.ch - +41 (0) 79 365 57 48 - http://blog.ffwll.ch
