On Tue, Apr 05, 2011 at 06:17:24PM +0200, Marco Chiappero wrote: > I just wanted to report possible issues related to the new backlight > control implemented in commit > 7751ab8e600f26e10c2ba12a92d48a4852a51da8 [sony-laptop: implement new > backlight control method]. I and Javier Achirica have been using it > for a while on different notebook models and agree that values close > to 0 are far too dark to be useful, while 0 means totally off for > both. Moreover flickering has been reported with CCFL LCDs (still > present on a few models, such as the Vaio F) by another tester. > In fact, with these Vaios, Windows never goes below a certain model > specific backlight lower bound, provided along with the ALS > capability. However, this requires further code not yet implemented > (or the ALS support already available but not yet included). Please > consider correcting or delaying that patch. Hmm. How low is useful? There's no real problem with shifting everything by an offset. -- Matthew Garrett | mjg59@xxxxxxxxxxxxx -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe platform-driver-x86" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
