Re: [Linux-fbdev-devel] no backlight on radeon after recent kernel"upgrade"s

[James Simmons]

Could you. Right now I'm busy with the DRM/fbdev device management.

On Thu, 1 Mar 2007, Richard Purdie wrote:

> On Wed, 2007-02-28 at 16:55 +0000, James Simmons wrote:
> > So the problem is not the configuration but that for some reason the 
> > backlight state is set to off by default.
> 
> Maybe, maybe not. I'm not sure there's been enough information to
> conclude that.
> 
> At the moment, I'd like a patch which makes backlight usage configurable
> at runtime though a module parameter and defaults to off in all cases
> except the powermac one. I'd like to get something into the tree,
> preferably before the next -rc, since at the moment things are breaking
> for people. If you haven't time, say so and I'll have a look and see if
> I can work one out.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Richard
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
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