Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753196Ab1EJLIb (ORCPT ); Tue, 10 May 2011 07:08:31 -0400 Received: from smtpout06.highway.telekom.at ([195.3.96.89]:21757 "EHLO email.aon.at" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752213Ab1EJLIa (ORCPT ); Tue, 10 May 2011 07:08:30 -0400 From: Melchior FRANZ To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: i915/kms/backlight-combo mode problem Date: Tue, 10 May 2011 13:08:23 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.13.7 (Linux/2.6.38.5; KDE/4.6.2; x86_64; ; ) Cc: Michael Chang , Joey Lee , chris@chris-wilson.co.uk, dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org, tiwai@suse.de References: In-Reply-To: X-Fingerprint: 9FFB C079 5B78 4F27 099C C6C6 7399 02D1 919B D903 X-PGP: http://members.aon.at/mfranz/melchior.franz MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201105101308.24662@rk-nord.at> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1456 Lines: 37 * Michael Chang -- Tuesday 10 May 2011: > Could you please try this patch and get the log ? We wonder why > is_backlight_combination_mode () returns false. This information was already buried in the bugzilla thread: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=31522 "It turned out that on this machine INTEL_INFO(dev)->gen equals 4, and is_backlight_combination_mode() returns 0x40000000." But to say it again in your words: :-) [drm:is_backlight_combination_mode], BLM_COMBINATION_MODE = 1073741824 (0x40000000) 6x during boot-up, and several times later when changing the backlight brightness. This was with 8b061610dac3a3b89770c85ad63b481a47b0c38e. And now I have a little shocker for you (and me): because this was a vanilla kernel (apart from these debug messages), the screen went black again, like I knew it. But pressing the "brightness down" key turns the backlight on! I can't believe that I haven't tested that. I guess I've only tried "brightness up" and "display toggle". Those don't turn backlight on. Or maybe somethine else relevant meanwhile changed in the i915 drivers. (I've regularly been updating to HEAD.) So, the problem was just the initial state all the time? m. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/