Re: [Bug #11557] Controlling backlight on thinkpad x60

From: Pavel Machek
Date: Sun Sep 14 2008 - 06:17:24 EST


On Sat 2008-09-13 16:13:30, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> I don't think this is a regression. The correct way to drive this
> hardware has always been through the ACPI video driver. The fact that
> thinkpad-acpi would also attempt to drive it was a bug.

I'm pretty sure thinkpad-acpi is older then ACPI-video. So yes, I
believe this is a regression, but it may be pretty old one.

Pavel

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