Re: [REGRESSION/PATCH] acpi: blacklist win8 OSI for ASUS Zenbok Prime UX31A

From: Felipe Contreras
Date: Thu Aug 01 2013 - 19:40:52 EST


On Tue, Jul 30, 2013 at 7:11 PM, Felipe Contreras
<felipe.contreras@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> It is already broken in v3.11-rc3, in fact I just booted that to try
> it out and it booted with the screen completely black (fortunately I
> knew exactly what to type to change that).
>
> Also, each time I change the
> backlight level from X, the screen blinks as if going 100%, 0%, and
> then the desired level.

This one is a bug in the ACPI driver. Here's the fix:

http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/1536959

Now instead of booting with 0% (off), it boots with 100%, which is
still not ideal, but way better.

--
Felipe Contreras
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