[Intel-gfx] New Samsung driver for backlight control.

[Mike Lothian]

2009/9/22 Matthias Hopf <mhopf at suse.de>:
> On Sep 13, 09 17:28:27 +0100, Mike Lothian wrote:
>> >>> > Can you check whether you have any backlight controlling module loaded?
>> >>> > Just check whether you have anything in /sys/class/backlight.
>> >>> Yes I have:
>> >>> /sys/class/backlight/samsung/*
>> >
>> >> And your X driver still doesn't export the Backlight property? That's
>> >> weird...
>> >> Please check the git version number of the X driver.
>> >
>> > I'm at git commit efbcf29dd1a1ca058b7a2a93f0685102c06c9369 of the master branch
>
> Sorry for the late answer.
>
> It turned out that I didn't commit the name of the samsung backlight
> driver to the intel video driver (*blush*) - mainly because GregKH and I
> weren't on the same level what the final name of the driver will be (I
> supposed something more general, as it probably won't be samsung
> centric).
>
> Now that the name presumably stays fixed as "samsung" I finally
> committed the name to the intel driver. It's commit #7e7db7a.
>
> CU
>
> Matthias
>
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Yip I think that's fixed it thanks

Looks like this laptop is now 100% linux compatible (apart from having
to force it to use only 3 gigs of ram with MEM=4g boot parm)

Cheers

Mike