Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 17 Apr 2009 01:44:13 +0100 | From | Matthew Garrett <> | Subject | Re: [Intel-gfx] [PATCH] i915: Register ACPI video even when not modesetting |
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On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 09:44:11AM +0200, Tino Keitel wrote: > On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 21:46:36 +0100, Matthew Garrett wrote: > > The ACPI video driver defers registration to the i915 driver if the > > system supports opregion-mediated backlight control. This registration > > was only being performed in the KMS case. Ensure it's done even if we > > don't have modesetting enabled. > > Does this provide backlight control even without DRI enabled, or just > without KMS enabled?
Just without KMS being enabled. If your backlight control doesn't work without dri, that's because your backlight control requires a kernel-level component to change the backlight registers in response to an IRQ (ie, DRI)
-- Matthew Garrett | mjg59@srcf.ucam.org
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