On Sat, 11 Apr 2009, Andrew Morton wrote: > > options thinkpad_acpi experimental=1 hotkey=enable,0xffffff Someday someone might be able to give me a good reason for why the hell distros like to do this sort of crap... but I don't think it will be anytime soon. > > Any ideas on how I can regain control over the brightness gas-pedal? I think what you're experiencing is some sort of breakage in ACPI video... > > WARNING: at drivers/platform/x86/thinkpad_acpi.c:2954 > > hotkey_enabledisable_warn+0x3e/0x43 [thinkpad_acpi]() > > thinkpad_acpi: hotkey enable/disable functionality has been removed from > > the driver. Hotkeys are always enabled. I will silence the warning for module parameters, thanks for the head's up. That was indeed an oversight. But it is a red-herring, it doesn't change the driver behaviour at all in this case... > > thinkpad_acpi: Standard ACPI backlight interface available, not loading > > native one. And this has always been true for any Lenovo Vista BIOS, it is not new. I really think we need to get the people dealing with ACPI video in the loop for this one. -- "One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot Henrique Holschuh -- 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
