Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 12 Jan 2010 17:28:33 +0000 (GMT) | From | James Simmons <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] drm/kms: fix fbdev blanking regression |
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> On 01/07/2010 12:42 AM, Johan Hovold wrote: > >> Yeap. The fix uncovered a bug in your driver. I haven't heard of problems > >> with the other drm drivers. > >> > >>> The backlight is handled via the DRI driver I assume. At least > >>> i9xx_crtc_dpms is called on powerdown. > >> > >> Can you post your dmesg and kernel config. > > [snip] > > Adding the Intel DRM people in CC as well. I have the same issue with my > GM45.
Okay I looked at the code to figure out what is happening and why only this driver has problems. The problem is that the framebuffer layer expects the backlight to be a seperate device. The reason being is that some embedded systems will use a gpio backlight. That way power management for a graphics card/backlight has 3 seperate states. Currently the intel DRM driver treats the backlight as being apart of the encoder. Jesse do you have objections to having the intel driver expose a backlight device. The bonus of that is the user can also set the backlight levels.
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