[ltp] thinkpad-acpi release 0.19-20080213 uploaded to ibm-acpi.sf.net

[Henrique de Moraes Holschuh]

On Fri, 15 Feb 2008, Alex Deucher wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 15, 2008 at 1:57 PM, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
> <hmh@hmh.eng.br> wrote:
> > On Fri, 15 Feb 2008, CC.Fan@gmx.de wrote:
> >  > > Yeah, the nVidia drivers aren't good for that.  You will have to either use
> >  > > ACPI video.c, or thinkpad-acpi brightness_enable=1 (don't use both), and
> >  > > the kernel method for xbacklight.
> >  >
> >  > how do I switch to xbacklight kernel-mode?
> >
> >  I just looked after it. Apparently, it is a function of the X server
> >  selected by a xrandr property, which I suppose to be only available on the
> >  Intel X server...  Good to know, I *was* wondering why I couldn't find a way
> >  to change xbacklight modes in the ATI driver.
> >
> >  xorg-xserver-video-ati seems to support a backlight RandR property... Only,
> >  it doesn't work in the T43 (yet, I hope).  I have no idea about the nVidia
> >  drivers.
> 
> I still need to sort that out.  Your best bet is to just use the acpi
> method for backlight control now as different oems control the
> backlight differently.  On some setups you can control the backlight
> via the LVDS control registers, on others the backlight is controlled
> via GPIO.  I haven't yet found a reliable way to tell which is
> implemented.

You could do something like Intel did, and if we ever find a way to reliably
tell them apart, we could auto-config it?

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  Henrique Holschuh