On Fri, Jul 04, 2008 at 12:09:49AM -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > On Thu, 03 Jul 2008, Matthew Garrett wrote: > > Not until the opregion code is merged, no. If you'd like that to happen > > faster, then figuring out why it triggers a 750ms delay on brightness > > changes on the T61 would be a great help, because I haven't a clue why > > it's broken... > > I have never really tried finding out WTF in the firmware causes this, but: > > 1. The backlight-change firmware runs in SMM. > 2. The calls happen in ACPI DSDT > 3. The SMM code DOES take care of the CMOS NVRAM As far as I can tell, it's sleeping in the DSDT. But all the ready flags are set appropriately according to the opregion spec, so I'm confused as to why. Hardware failure has meant I've got to use the T61 this week, so I'll try to fix it while I'm stuck in an airport tomorrow... -- Matthew Garrett | mjg59@xxxxxxxxxxxxx -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-acpi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
