Re: [PATCH 5/9] fujitsu-laptop: fingers off backlight if video.ko

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Am Mittwoch, den 16.07.2008, 10:12 +0800 schrieb Zhang Rui:
> On Wed, 2008-07-16 at 09:25 +0930, Jonathan Woithe wrote:
> > > > It is likely that everything works out with video.ko then.
> > > > If not, with a patch I sent recently you should switch off Windows osi strings 
> > > > with:
> > > > acpi_osi=windows_false   (preferred)
> > > > or (already works)
> > > > acpi_osi="!Windows 2006"
> > > 
> > > disabling windows_osi disables backlight through video.ko and everything
> > > works fine with fujitsu_laptop (also brightness-buttons since ACPI then
> > > generates events on the fujitsu device) but some other ACPI stuff is
> > > disabled too (extended battery status etc...)
> > 
> > As per my previous email, the fact that this works is probably because in
> > this instance acpi_video_backlight_support() returns false and allows
> > fujitsu-laptop to set up its backlight control functions.
> 
> Peter,
> can you attach the acpidump output please?
> you can use the latest pmtools at
> http://www.lesswatts.org/patches/linux_acpi/

already in http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10454



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