[PATCH][RFC] Backlight addon for dell laptops

[William Jon McCann]

Hey,

On 1/31/07, David Zeuthen <david at fubar.dk> wrote:
> On Fri, 2007-01-12 at 12:56 -0500, William Jon McCann wrote:
> > Hey,
> >
> > David wrote:
> > >I've yet to test this on my two Dell laptops. They're at home.
> >
> > So, it seems like the dcdbas module is not present in the latest FC6
> > kernel.  Is that intentional?  I see it in RHEL4 kernels...
>
> It's in 2.6.18-1.2869.fc6 at least. Just upgrading an FC6 box shows it's
> also available in the latest FC6 update kernel
>
>  /lib/modules/2.6.19-1.2895.fc6/kernel/drivers/firmware/dcdbas.ko
>
> The thing is.. it's not autoloaded by default.

For some reason my laptop must have the 586 kernel then...  yum bug perhaps?

% rpm -qlp http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/updates/6/i386/kernel-2.6.19-1.2895.fc6.i686.rpm|grep
dcd
/lib/modules/2.6.19-1.2895.fc6/kernel/drivers/firmware/dcdbas.ko
% rpm -qlp http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/updates/6/i386/kernel-2.6.19-1.2895.fc6.i586.rpm|grep
dcd

Jon