Re: [patch] turn off backlight on 12 pbook

2004-01-13 Thread Guido Guenther
Hi, On Wed, Oct 29, 2003 at 01:20:03PM +0100, Michael Schmitz wrote: On Tue, Oct 28, 2003 at 03:59:11PM +0100, Guido Guenther wrote: although it can't handle brightness at the moment. Patch is against 2.4.22-ben2. A slightly updated version (that additionally turns off the backlight at

Re: [patch] turn off backlight on 12 pbook

2003-11-03 Thread Michael Schmitz
the kernel barfs sometime after rivafb init. xmon output goes to serial which is utterly pointless on a flat panel iMac Tried forcing use_screen to 1 in xmon ? if that doesn't work, you have That's what I was looking for, thanks. the option of using firewire debugging :) I pushed a

Re: [patch] turn off backlight on 12 pbook

2003-11-03 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
I'd have to have a remote host to attach in the first place. That's a real sick idea there. I'd rather hack xmon over ethernet :-) Well, it's actually far from beeing sick :) The nice thing is that the 1394 protocol let a node tap physical addresses in the memory of another node. The actual

Re: [patch] turn off backlight on 12 pbook

2003-11-03 Thread Michael Schmitz
I'd have to have a remote host to attach in the first place. That's a real sick idea there. I'd rather hack xmon over ethernet :-) Well, it's actually far from beeing sick :) The nice thing is that the 1394 protocol let a node tap physical addresses in the memory of another node. The

Re: [patch] turn off backlight on 12 pbook

2003-10-31 Thread Michael Schmitz
Can the classic emulation be used for this? No. Unfortunately, Macsbug is useful for tracking HW access, but classic emulation does no HW access, it all gets routed to underlying OS X drivers That's what I feared. I'll leave it to others, then. On the 2.6 front, I've _once_ been able to get

Re: [patch] turn off backlight on 12 pbook

2003-10-31 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
On Fri, 2003-10-31 at 19:58, Michael Schmitz wrote: Can the classic emulation be used for this? No. Unfortunately, Macsbug is useful for tracking HW access, but classic emulation does no HW access, it all gets routed to underlying OS X drivers That's what I feared. I'll leave it to

Re: [patch] turn off backlight on 12 pbook

2003-10-30 Thread Carlos Perelló Marín
El jue, 30-10-2003 a las 04:46, Benjamin Herrenschmidt escribió: On Wed, 2003-10-29 at 23:20, Michael Schmitz wrote: On Tue, Oct 28, 2003 at 03:59:11PM +0100, Guido Guenther wrote: although it can't handle brightness at the moment. Patch is against 2.4.22-ben2. A slightly updated

Re: [patch] turn off backlight on 12 pbook

2003-10-30 Thread Guido Guenther
On Thu, Oct 30, 2003 at 02:46:12PM +1100, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: If any of you has a MacOS 9 capable machine with flat panel, I want to see if we can get the actual finer backlight control to work. With MacOS That'd be pretty cool. NVidia currently doesn't provide any information on

Re: [patch] turn off backlight on 12 pbook

2003-10-30 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
On Thu, 2003-10-30 at 20:32, Michael Schmitz wrote: Thanks, I'll try that on the flat panel iMac, and work it into 2.6.0 as well. Worked fine in 2.4, dies horribly in 2.6 BTW. Still tracking it down. If any of you has a MacOS 9 capable machine with flat panel, I want to see if we

Re: [patch] turn off backlight on 12 pbook

2003-10-29 Thread Michael Schmitz
On Tue, Oct 28, 2003 at 03:59:11PM +0100, Guido Guenther wrote: although it can't handle brightness at the moment. Patch is against 2.4.22-ben2. A slightly updated version (that additionally turns off the backlight at level == 0) can be found at:

Re: [patch] turn off backlight on 12 pbook

2003-10-29 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
On Wed, 2003-10-29 at 23:20, Michael Schmitz wrote: On Tue, Oct 28, 2003 at 03:59:11PM +0100, Guido Guenther wrote: although it can't handle brightness at the moment. Patch is against 2.4.22-ben2. A slightly updated version (that additionally turns off the backlight at level == 0) can

[patch] turn off backlight on 12 pbook

2003-10-28 Thread Guido Guenther
Hi, the attached patch allows to toggle the backlight via fblevel on/off on a 12 pbook on and off. It registers a full backlight control although it can't handle brightness at the moment. Patch is against 2.4.22-ben2. Many thanks to Mark Vojkovich for providing the necessary information. Regards,