Re: [PATCH] Added backlight driver for Acer Aspire 4736

[joeyli]

Hi Pradeep, 

æ äï2012-03-13 æ 21:24 -0400ïPradeep Subrahmanion æåï
> On Tue, 2012-03-13 at 13:34 +0000, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> > On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 06:56:16PM +0530, Pradeep Subrahmanion wrote:
> > > I tried giving acpi_backlight = vendor . In that case hot key for
> > > brightness control is working. But i think  , it is not calculating the
> > > correct value for brightness because increasing brightness after maximum
> > > level gives blank screen .
> > 
> > Which backlight device appears then?
> > 
> 
> 'intel_backlight' appears when i gave option acpi_backlight = vendor. Writing to /sys/class/backlight/intel_backlight/brightness
> 
> does not cause any change in brightness.
> 

The above command not work, that means EC didn't change backlight
value:

Method (_BCM, 1, NotSerialized)
{
    Divide (Arg0, 0x0A, Local0, Local1)
    Decrement (Local1)
    Store (Local1, ^^^^LPC.EC0.BRTS)    <=== write backlight value to EC
register
}

Per my understood, EC firmware should change brightness but didn't do
that, another
way is touch i915 register in _BCM.

Acer machine provide a broken _BCM implementation and they didn't test
it.

> > > By ' ACPI interface' , I mean 'acpi_video0' inside the
> > > /sys/class/backlight. I havn't tried the /sys/class/backlight interface
> > > directly . I will try that also.
> > 
> > So writing values into /sys/class/backlight/acpi_video0/brightness does 
> > nothing?
> 
> 
> No change in value when writing
> to /sys/class/backlight/acpi_video0/brightness.
> 
> Another thing is that when i did boot with acpi_backlight = 'acer_wmi' ,
> in new kernel (3.3.0-rc7) , it shows following messages , 
> 
> [    8.350825] wmi: Mapper loaded
> [   10.363975] acer_wmi: Acer Laptop ACPI-WMI Extras
> [   10.396186] acer_wmi: Function bitmap for Communication Device: 0x91
> [   10.396385] acer_wmi: Brightness must be controlled by generic video
> driver
> 
> Also there was no interface inside /sys/class/backlight for acer_wmi. 
> 

Yes, acer_wmi support backlight control with AMW0 interface, your
machine didn't have AMW0 interface.

Normally, backlight should control by standard acpi interface.

> I also tried writing directly to Embedded controller register .But no
> change.

The machine has broken _BCM method, because EC should do something after
_BCM changed EC register.

> ----
> 
> Thanks , 
> 
> Pradeep Subrahmanion
>   


Thanks a lot!
Joey Lee

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