From: Melchior FRANZ <melchior.franz@gmail.com>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: i915/kms/backlight-combo mode problem (was: Re: Linux 2.6.39-rc5)
Date: Mon, 2 May 2011 15:12:40 +0200
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* Takashi Iwai -- Monday 02 May 2011:
* > At Sat, 30 Apr 2011 13:34:51 +0200, Melchior FRANZ wrote:
> > * Takashi Iwai -- Saturday 30 April 2011:
> > > acpi_osi quirk should be better added statically, then.
> > 
> > No, I guess the problem here is that acer_wmi doesn't support this
> > machine yet.

> Hm, but the backlight control is done via the standard ACPI, no?

I have no idea. If I were an expert, I would just have sent a
patch, not a bug report. And I prefer fixes to "quirks".  :-P


> BTW, did you try my previous patch?

Works. I hadn't tested it before, because you seemed to wait
for the opinion of some Intel people, and so did I. But thanks
for that code!

m.
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