From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: jsimmons@infradead.org
Cc: Joel.Becker@oracle.com, lists@onerussian.com, rpurdie@rpsys.net,
akpm@linux-foundation.org,
linux-fbdev-devel@lists.sourceforge.net,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [Linux-fbdev-devel] no backlight on radeon after recent kernel "upgrade"s
Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2007 09:28:12 -0800 (PST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070222.092812.112620509.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0702221549530.29542@pentafluge.infradead.org>
From: James Simmons <jsimmons@infradead.org>
Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2007 15:55:24 +0000 (GMT)
> I just tested various confirations of backlight support. Backlight is
> ALWAYS selected by default when you select a particular fbdev driver that
> has backlight support. You just have the option to turn it off if you
> want. These problems are showing up because of stale .config files.
BTW, enabling the backlight option broke things for me with
Radeon on sparc64 too, FWIW.
And when the option was presented to me for the first time,
the default was yes, so that's what I gave it.
This is what a lot of users would see.
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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: jsimmons@infradead.org
Cc: linux-fbdev-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, Joel.Becker@oracle.com,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, rpurdie@rpsys.net,
akpm@linux-foundation.org, lists@onerussian.com
Subject: Re: no backlight on radeon after recent kernel "upgrade"s
Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2007 09:28:12 -0800 (PST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070222.092812.112620509.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0702221549530.29542@pentafluge.infradead.org>
From: James Simmons <jsimmons@infradead.org>
Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2007 15:55:24 +0000 (GMT)
> I just tested various confirations of backlight support. Backlight is
> ALWAYS selected by default when you select a particular fbdev driver that
> has backlight support. You just have the option to turn it off if you
> want. These problems are showing up because of stale .config files.
BTW, enabling the backlight option broke things for me with
Radeon on sparc64 too, FWIW.
And when the option was presented to me for the first time,
the default was yes, so that's what I gave it.
This is what a lot of users would see.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-02-22 17:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 57+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-02-19 4:46 no backlight on radeon after recent kernel "upgrade"s Yaroslav Halchenko
2007-02-19 8:04 ` Andrew Morton
2007-02-19 8:04 ` Andrew Morton
2007-02-19 9:19 ` Richard Purdie
2007-02-19 9:19 ` Richard Purdie
2007-02-21 5:56 ` Yaroslav Halchenko
2007-02-22 0:34 ` Richard Purdie
2007-02-22 0:34 ` Richard Purdie
2007-02-22 1:07 ` James Simmons
2007-02-22 1:07 ` James Simmons
2007-02-22 9:46 ` Richard Purdie
2007-02-22 9:46 ` Richard Purdie
2007-02-22 15:18 ` James Simmons
2007-02-22 1:11 ` [Linux-fbdev-devel] " James Simmons
2007-02-22 2:09 ` Joel Becker
2007-02-22 15:55 ` James Simmons
2007-02-22 15:55 ` James Simmons
2007-02-22 17:28 ` David Miller [this message]
2007-02-22 17:28 ` David Miller
2007-02-28 16:55 ` [Linux-fbdev-devel] " James Simmons
2007-03-01 10:57 ` Richard Purdie
2007-03-01 10:57 ` Richard Purdie
2007-03-01 21:08 ` [Linux-fbdev-devel] " James Simmons
2007-03-01 21:08 ` James Simmons
2007-02-21 22:18 ` Alex Romosan
2007-02-21 22:41 ` Richard Purdie
2007-02-21 22:41 ` Richard Purdie
2007-02-21 23:17 ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2007-02-22 0:12 ` Richard Purdie
2007-02-22 0:12 ` Richard Purdie
2007-02-22 0:51 ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2007-02-22 1:10 ` Richard Purdie
2007-02-22 1:10 ` Richard Purdie
2007-02-22 2:13 ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2007-02-22 1:10 ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2007-02-22 1:16 ` ACPI: ibm-acpi: fix initial status of backlight device Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2007-02-22 10:03 ` Richard Purdie
2007-02-22 14:45 ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2007-02-22 18:19 ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2007-02-22 10:00 ` no backlight on radeon after recent kernel "upgrade"s Richard Purdie
2007-02-22 10:00 ` Richard Purdie
2007-02-22 14:56 ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2007-02-22 15:19 ` Richard Purdie
2007-02-22 15:19 ` Richard Purdie
2007-02-22 16:00 ` James Simmons
2007-02-22 16:00 ` James Simmons
2007-02-22 16:34 ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2007-02-22 17:08 ` Richard Purdie
2007-02-22 17:08 ` Richard Purdie
2007-02-21 23:51 ` Alex Romosan
2007-02-22 1:13 ` James Simmons
2007-02-22 1:13 ` James Simmons
2007-02-22 9:56 ` Richard Purdie
2007-02-22 9:56 ` Richard Purdie
2007-02-22 14:38 ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2007-02-22 4:03 ` Alex Romosan
2007-02-22 4:58 ` Alex Romosan
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