Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 14 Jan 2008 01:50:09 +0000 | From | Matthew Garrett <> | Subject | Re: Lenovo ThinkPads need acpi_osi="Linux" |
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On Mon, Jan 14, 2008 at 12:35:54AM +0000, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> No. This breaks on the R50e, at least - I suspect it'd also have > problems on any nvidia based machines, but I don't have one to hand at > the moment. It can be set at runtime already.
Just to clarify this further, in the relatively near-term future we're not going to want the low-level ACPI code to do anything video-related on a lot of hardware. The in-kernel modesetting code for Intel machines will be able to handle this significantly more effectively.
-- Matthew Garrett | mjg59@srcf.ucam.org
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