* Michael 'Mickey' Lauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [081015 14:22]: > Am Wednesday 15 October 2008 06:38:01 schrieb Mike (mwester): > > > FSO should switch the backlight control from the sysfs method to the > > > fbdev-ioctl method. It's backwards compatible to old kernels (which will > > > just backlight-blank) and future-compatible with kernels that add the > > > jbt6k74 notifier and glamo fb_blank() patches.
> Already done, thanks to a patch from Harald and some refactoring. > While doing this, I encountered a strange thing. One of my FreeRunners does > not recover from a BLANK ioctl anymore. The backlight turns on but the > display does not show any pixels. I have to reboot to make it work again. > Could that be connected to that infamous WSOD resume bug? I think so. I get a WSoD on every resume, when suspended for more than a minute. And since the frameworkd uses the new fb for blanking the screen I get it on un-blanking as well. If I comment out the changes in fb_notifier_callback (jbt6k74.c) the WSoD goes away... > Cheers, > Mickey. Mok
