Hello everyone, I recently received two shiny Asus Eee Top ET1602 units to play with. I am to run Linux on them, and pretend that the Windows XP Home that came with them is not there. But I have a problem... the LCD backlight is turned off when X starts with the intel driver.
I use Ubuntu 8.10 (intel driver 2.4.1, libdrm 2.3.1, kernel 2.6.27). As soon as X starts, the backlight turns off and there's no way to turn it back on while X is on display. Switching to a console turns the backlight on, switching back to X turns it off again. The display is connected on the LVDS connector (according to the Windows video driver), but when I run "xrandr --properties" there's something wrong there: the range for the BACKLIGHT priperty is (0,0). I tried switching the BACKLIGHT_CONTROL property to different values (starts with 'native'), but to no avail. I hacked the drivers so the range matches that of my laptop, which is (0,10781) in "combination" mode, but still no effect on the backlight. The "vesa" driver works fine. Even more, the touch screen works with the evtouch driver without much hassle: http://wiki.linuxmce.org/index.php/Asus_Eee_Top . All that's missing is the actual picture. I tried the 2.5.1 driver from Debian experimental (without upgrading any drm kernel modules though) and I got the same result. At this point, I gave up on researching it on my own. Can someone help me fix the backlight controls for this machine? Thanks, Radu C _______________________________________________ xorg mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg
