On Saturday 06 September 2008 09:19:59 am Andrey Borzenkov wrote: > On Saturday 06 September 2008, Andrey Borzenkov wrote: > > I have now two different devices that refer to the same hardware: > > > > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 2008-09-06 11:04 acpi_video0 -> > > ../../devices/virtual/backlight/acpi_video0/ lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 > > 2008-09-06 11:04 toshiba -> ../../devices/virtual/backlight/toshiba/ > > > > Unfortunately, due to ACPI implementation the acpi_video0 one is much > > inferior (as it provides only effectively two levels instead of 8); > > and user level tools are apparently quite confused which one to select. > > > > Is there any mechanism that would allow tochiba_acpi to claim brightness > > for internal LCD screen that video would not attempt to grab it too? > > > > Of course manually disabling brightness handling in video is always > > possible, > > Actually it is not. brightness_switch_enabled only disables event handling; > it still resets actual brightness on loading and creates sysfs files to > confuse user space. > > > still is nice for this to be handled automatically. It is in latest ACPI test branch queued for 2.6.28. The problem in bug: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9614 is another. But the patchset pointed to in comment #43 should fix several, also your problem. If not, please tell me and open a new bug. Thanks, Thomas -- 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
