Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 28 Nov 2010 22:36:22 +0300 | From | Dan Carpenter <> | Subject | Re: back light conflict i915 vs dell-laptop |
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On Sun, Nov 28, 2010 at 07:05:27PM +0100, Patrick Schaaf wrote: > On Thu, 2010-11-25 at 12:33 +0300, Dan Carpenter wrote: > > Patrick Schaaf has reported that the i915 driver is setting his > > backlight very dim when he starts GDM. > > > > https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=23472 > > > > It should be the dell-laptop platform driver controlling his backlight. > > > > Gnome tries to restore the backlight settings through the dell_laptop > > interface in sysfs but it fails. (Because the platform hardware refuses > > to set the settings to what it thinks they already are). >
Keith Packard wrote in another thread that there were some patches to address this in his git repo:
git://people.freedesktop.org/~keithp/linux-2.6 drm-intel-next
regards, dan carpenter
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