[Intel-gfx] back light conflict i915 vs dell-laptop

Chris Wilson chris at chris-wilson.co.uk
Tue Jan 11 14:33:36 CET 2011


On Tue, 11 Jan 2011 12:31:24 +0100, Patrick Schaaf <bof at bof.de> wrote:
> The dell laptop backlight problems I reported previously, are fixed with Indan's
> patch found here:
> 
> https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=23472#c32
> 
> which disables the is_backlight_combination_mode() function by making it
> return 0 immediately.

I'd be happier in this case to disable the combination mode rather than
ignore a value being used by the hardware to determine the backlight level.
-Chris

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