http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9625
------- Comment #4 from [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2008-01-02 03:19 ------- No, since "fix it" means actually breaking it further *as things stand right now*. If we deploy an improved backlight interface that actually informs userspace of all the details it needs to know to handle an n-to-m mapping of sysfs backlight instances to physical backlight devices, even with n>1 and m>1, then I will revert the default. But I do intend to change something in this area. I am going to place the thinkpad in ACPI mode, which means it will be *much* easier to use e.g. xbacklight, even if one does not load the ACPI video.c driver. New Lenovo Thinkpads change behaviour after you load video.c once, until the next boot, even if you unload it... so you can guess we have a major mess in the backlight area which is really difficult to debug, so I have to always ask the users to cold boot into single-user mode, with x.org disabled (so that it doesn't even attempt to load), and with video.ko renamed to something else so that nothing loads it... :-( -- Configure bugmail: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug, or are watching someone who is. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2005. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ acpi-bugzilla mailing list acpi-bugzilla@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/acpi-bugzilla
