On Wed, Feb 13, 2013 at 02:32:28PM -0600, Seth Forshee wrote: > On Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 07:09:14PM +0000, Matthew Garrett wrote: > > Right. My concern here is that Windows clearly doesn't trigger the > > issue, and so there's some chance that we'll see similar issues on other > > machines. Disabling Windows 8 compatibility isn't really an option. One > > choice might be to have the ACPI video driver set all intermediate > > values if the system makes the Windows 8 OSI call? > > This turns out to have some problems. The hotkeys on the x230 at least > generate increase/decrease brightness notifications. In response > acpi_video reads the current brightness level via _BQC and decides what > the next value should be. A value adjacent to a working value is never > another working value on this machine, so _BCM does nothing. The next > time a notification comes _BQC returns the same value as it did the > previous time. Obviously this gets us nowhere. Nrgh. Having this logic in the kernel has always been miserable. On the other hand, having _BQC return wrong values is arguably even worse. > The (untested) fix I've come up with is to use the cached value for the > current brightness rather than asking the firmware. I'm assuming though > that acpi_video would be using the cached values already if there wasn't > a chance that their changing without its knowledge? Yeah. What I'd suggest here is calling _BQC after every change, and if it returns the old value throw a firmware bug message and fall back to using a cached one. > The other issue with using the cached value is that the hotkeys on these > machines are still going to end up cycling through 101 brightness levels > with 85% of them leaving the brightness unchanged. When there's that > many levels though maybe it makes sense to jump more than one level at a > time. Right. I'd recommend turning off that functionality and just leaving it up to userspace. We still seem to be carrying a patch to do that in Fedora. I thought I had a patch to make this a config option somewhere, but can't find any sign of it now... -- 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
