[Intel-gfx] Backlight testing

Jesse Barnes jbarnes at virtuousgeek.org
Fri May 9 19:47:19 CEST 2008


On Thursday, April 24, 2008 8:37 pm Zhenyu Wang wrote:
> On 2008.04.24 14:47:10 +0200, Lukas Hejtmanek wrote:
> > Hello Jesse,
> >
> > unfortunately, the latest head of the intel driver has problem with
> > backlight setting again.
> >
> > If I change backlight setting while the xserver is running (using /sys
> > interface), using mplayer resets the setting back to the previous value.
> >
> > I think it happens if I set backlight level and then call DPMS from On to
> > On. The current code does not reread the current value. The following
> > patch works for me:
>
> Good catch, I think we can ignore backlight setting if current target
> power has already been on, or get/set current level as in your patch.

Zhenyu, you want to go ahead and apply something like this for the 2.3.1 
release?

Thanks,
Jesse



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