On Wed, 2008-12-17 at 04:55 +0800, Matthew Garrett wrote: > On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 10:00:23AM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > > > OK, that's weird. I have a suspicion that we're about to find out that > > this is intentional, but I don't know what the fix is.. > > My recollection is that some BIOSes provide the list of brightness > values in reverse order - someone posted a patch to sort them in-kernel, > but I can't remember what happened to it. xbacklight will work because > it triggers a direct write to the hardware if the acpi driver isn't > loaded. > right, this seems to be a duplicate of http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12037 khashayar, please attach the result of "grep . /proc/acpi/video/*/*/*". please try the patch in http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12037#c5 and see if it helps. thanks, rui -- 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
