From: Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org>
To: Norbert Preining <preining@logic.at>
Cc: Mattia Dongili <malattia@linux.it>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
ACPI Devel Mailing List <linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: regression since 2.6.36: backlight in sony-laptop not working
Date: Fri, 12 Nov 2010 03:44:23 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20101112034423.GA7407@srcf.ucam.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20101111235000.GA6651@gamma.logic.tuwien.ac.at>
On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 08:50:00AM +0900, Norbert Preining wrote:
> On Mi, 10 Nov 2010, Mattia Dongili wrote:
> > It's ages sony_laptop doesn't change, it may be some other change in the
> > acpi layer that causes this.
>
> Seems so that the sys files have changed to new locations:
> /sys/devices/virtual/backlight/acpi_video0/brightness
>
> (mind the additional "virtual")
> as well as thermal zone etc etc.
>
> Could that explain the problem?
Only if you have some wonderfully badly written software. What are you
using to control the backlight? Also, I'd note that in this case your
backlight is controlled via ACPI, not sony-laptop.
--
Matthew Garrett | mjg59@srcf.ucam.org
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-11-12 3:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-11-04 14:29 regression since 2.6.36: backlight in sony-laptop not working Norbert Preining
2010-11-10 3:58 ` Mattia Dongili
2010-11-11 23:50 ` Norbert Preining
2010-11-12 3:44 ` Matthew Garrett [this message]
2010-11-12 3:50 ` Norbert Preining
2010-11-12 3:57 ` Matthew Garrett
2010-11-12 4:14 ` Norbert Preining
2010-11-12 4:22 ` Mattia Dongili
2010-11-12 4:39 ` Norbert Preining
2010-11-12 12:17 ` Mattia Dongili
2010-11-16 5:16 ` Norbert Preining
2010-11-16 14:18 ` Mattia Dongili
2010-11-16 17:41 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2010-11-17 6:30 ` Norbert Preining
2010-11-17 6:33 ` Norbert Preining
2010-11-17 6:52 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2010-11-18 11:04 ` Mattia Dongili
2010-11-18 13:34 ` Mattia Dongili
2010-11-18 18:06 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2010-11-17 7:12 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2010-11-12 7:38 ` Zhang Rui
2010-11-12 10:10 ` Norbert Preining
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