Bug#587014: screen brightness can't be modified on some Panasonic laptops

2011-01-15 Thread Axel G. Rossberg
A solution for this problem that works for me (ubuntu 10.10, 2.6.35-24 kernel) is described here http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1612560 In a nutshell, add the boot option "acpi_osi=" to grub, by executing $ gksudo gedit /etc/default/grub (which calls an editor) to replace in the file

Bug#587014: screen brightness can't be modified on some Panasonic laptops

2011-01-03 Thread Matthew Garrett
Well, that's odd. There's certainly support for ACPI backlight control in your firmware, and it goes via opregion so it should work correctly. I think the thing to do here is to have the panasonic driver bail if there's ACPI backlight support, and then figure out why the ACPI video driver isn't

Bug#587014: screen brightness can't be modified on some Panasonic laptops

2011-01-03 Thread Matthew Garrett
Is there a /sys/class/backlight/acpi_video0 directory as well as the Panasonic one? -- Matthew Garrett | mj...@srcf.ucam.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Bug#587014: screen brightness can't be modified on some Panasonic laptops

2011-01-03 Thread Matthew Garrett
On Tue, Jan 04, 2011 at 06:14:40AM +0800, Cristopher Camacho wrote: > No, there is no. Only the /sys/class/backlight/panasonic/ directory is > present. Can you attach the output of the acpidump command on your system? -- Matthew Garrett | mj...@srcf.ucam.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debi

Bug#587014: screen brightness can't be modified on some Panasonic laptops

2011-01-03 Thread Cristopher Camacho
No, there is no. Only the /sys/class/backlight/panasonic/ directory is present. Cristopher On Tue, Jan 4, 2011 at 5:33 AM, Matthew Garrett wrote: > Is there a /sys/class/backlight/acpi_video0 directory as well as the > Panasonic one? > > -- > Matthew Garrett | mj...@srcf.ucam.org > -- To UNS

Bug#587014: screen brightness can't be modified on some Panasonic laptops

2011-01-03 Thread Nicolas Limare
On Mon, Jan 03, 2011 at 10:40:03AM +0100, Thomas Renninger wrote: > On Wednesday 29 December 2010 16:24:28 Nicolas Limare wrote: > > I also received a message reportin for this bug on a Panasonic CF-52. > > > > Can I in any way help this bug get more attention? > > > What is Bug#587014? Do you ha

Bug#587014: screen brightness can't be modified on some Panasonic laptops

2011-01-03 Thread Thomas Renninger
On Wednesday 29 December 2010 16:24:28 Nicolas Limare wrote: > I also received a message reportin for this bug on a Panasonic CF-52. > > Can I in any way help this bug get more attention? > What is Bug#587014? Do you have a link? Panasonic is the only driver which will always try to use native b

Bug#587014: screen brightness can't be modified on some Panasonic laptops)

2010-12-31 Thread Nicolas Limare
The latest squeeze kernel (2.6.32-29) improved the situation. Now, when the system boots, the backlight is not automatically set to its maximum level. So, it is possible to set the backlight level during the BIOS boot phase, and keep this level. This is a big improvement since now the system is us

Bug#587014: screen brightness can't be modified on some Panasonic laptops

2010-12-29 Thread Nicolas Limare
I also received a message reportin for this bug on a Panasonic CF-52. Can I in any way help this bug get more attention? Just in case, I am at 27C3 now, with my laptop, so if anyone there wants to directly investigate the issue just let me know. -- Nicolas LIMARE http://nicolas.limare.net/