[ltp] ACPI video module on Thinkpad R61 8918

Christian Birchinger linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Wed, 10 Oct 2007 23:42:49 +0200


On Wed, Oct 10, 2007 at 06:31:55PM -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
> On Wed, 10 Oct 2007, Christian Birchinger wrote:
> > On Wed, Oct 10, 2007 at 06:06:48PM -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
> > > On Wed, 10 Oct 2007, Christian Birchinger wrote:
> > > > "current" does not get updated when the Fn+Home/End hotkeys or
> > > > the special /proc/acpi/ibm/brightness from the thinkpad-acpi
> > > > module gets used to adjust brightness. On boot it shows "0"
> > > > but the display is not dark.
> > > 
> > > This is a bug somewhere, but it *could* be in the thinkpad firmware. Make
> > > sure you are using the latest one.
> > 
> > BIOS is 1.21-1.06 and 1.22-1.06 is available. But i think the
> > 1.06 part (Embedded Controller version) is the relevant part and
> > that isn't newer.
> 
> No, the bug would be in the ACPI AML code, which is part of the BIOS. So the
> update might indeed be relevant.

Done, no change.