[Nouveau] backlight support

schmirrwurst at googlemail.com schmirrwurst at googlemail.com
Wed Jul 29 09:23:19 PDT 2009


I've tried with the ppa version that is git+20090724+094e4e0
but still no backlight information on /proc/acpi/video and 
/sys/class/backlight...

Le Monday 27 July 2009 19:00:46, Pekka Paalanen a écrit :
> On Mon, 27 Jul 2009 18:46:36 +0200
>
> sebastien.brennion at googlemail.com wrote:
> > I use karmic, with the already packaged 0.0.14+git20090715-0ubuntu1 from
> > nouveau...
>
> Does that build have backlight support enabled?
> It was made configurable a day before that package date in
> http://cgit.freedesktop.org/nouveau/linux-2.6/commit/?id=4df79d74cf77cad4c2
>7348b3299fb6e046883105
>
> > I can't see any backlight information in /sys/class/backlight
> > Could you tell me how it is supposed to work with nouveau ? I though the
> > driver would provide backlight information there??
> >
> > I don't think to have a old hw, but I don't know what is old for devs...
> > nVidia Corporation G86 [GeForce 8400M GT]
>
> That is considered quite new.


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