[Nouveau] [Bug 100446] Backlight control not working on Pascal / GP106 using nouveau drivers

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https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=100446

--- Comment #6 from Martin Peres <martin.peres at free.fr> ---
(In reply to caguduzexi from comment #5)
> I wont recommend using/keeping the GP106 (GTX 1060). It cant ever run with
> free software:
> https://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/04/15/
> nvidia_gtx_900_linux_driver_roadbloack/
> https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Nouveau-XDC2017
> https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Nouveau-XDC2016-NVIDIA
> 
> Sell this crappy GP102 card (in your case the notebook that contains this
> crap) away and go away from nvidia. Nvidia died with the 780ti card. Its the
> last end-user card that can be used normaly. Everything else is in some
> countries even a legal problem. Because the manufacturer (nvidia) blocks the
> users from beeing able to boot the software they want on THEIR hardware -
> happyly illegal in some countries. Hopefully some layer would sue the heck
> out of nvidia so that they would have to release the private signing key or
> close their doors.
> Blocking the freedom of the users on such way should not be accepted by
> anyone.

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