On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 11:53 AM, Seth Forshee
<[email protected]> wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 11:46:39AM -0600, Grant Likely wrote:
>> On Wed, Feb 22, 2012 at 8:37 AM, Seth Forshee
>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>> > Apple laptops with hybrid graphics have a device named gmux that
>> > controls the muxing of the LVDS panel between the GPUs as well as screen
>> > brightness. This driver adds support for the gmux device. Only backlight
>> > control is supported initially.
>> >
>> > Signed-off-by: Seth Forshee <[email protected]>
>>
>> Works for me.
>>
>> Tested-by: Grant Likely <[email protected]>
>>
>> Now I just need to figure out how to get the desktop backlight widget
>> to use gmux_backlight instead of acpi_video0...
>
> The easy way is to pass acpi_backlight=vendor to the kernel, then you
> won't have acpi_vidoe0.

That did it, thanks.  I'm assume something is in the works to set it
up automatically?

g.

-- 
Grant Likely, B.Sc., P.Eng.
Secret Lab Technologies Ltd.
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