[ltp] thinkpad-acpi release 0.18-20071013 uploaded to ibm-acpi.sf.net

[Henrique de Moraes Holschuh]

On Mon, 15 Oct 2007, Jan Gutter wrote:
> On Sun, 2007-10-14 at 18:03 -0200, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
> > Please test, you should need to use brightness_force=1 on any T6x and
> > X6x with their latest BIOSes to get thinkpad-acpi backlight support.
> 
> Do you mean brightness_enable? I don't see a brightness_force

Yeah, that.  It was brightness_force before, I renamed it and apparently my
subconscious liked the older name better :)

> parameter... Aside from that everything looks OK. Passing
> brightness_enable enables /proc/acpi/ibm/brightness, otherwise it's
> disabled.

Good.

> > Also, if someone that owns a T6x or X6x that keeps his BIOS always
> > up-to-date offers to do heavy testing with kernels 2.6.20-2.6.22, I will
> > consider adding ACPI video driver backports to the thinkpad-acpi backport
> > releases.
> 
> I've got the X61 Tablet with the latest BIOS. If you send me a list of
> kernels/thinkpad patches I should try, I'll see what I can do ;-)

Ah, ok.  I will start looking at the latest video driver to check how
troublesome it would be to backport it to 2.6.20 onwards.

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  Henrique Holschuh