From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S935441Ab1JEV7i (ORCPT ); Wed, 5 Oct 2011 17:59:38 -0400 Received: from nm6.bullet.mail.sp2.yahoo.com ([98.139.91.76]:32641 "HELO nm6.bullet.mail.sp2.yahoo.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S934884Ab1JEV7h (ORCPT ); Wed, 5 Oct 2011 17:59:37 -0400 X-Yahoo-Newman-Property: ymail-3 X-Yahoo-Newman-Id: 767976.31823.bm@omp1027.mail.sp2.yahoo.com DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=yahoo.com; h=X-YMail-OSG:Received:X-Mailer:References:Message-ID:Date:From:Reply-To:Subject:To:In-Reply-To:MIME-Version:Content-Type; b=c3XWci1p7BFW3bYNrJIc7KDAKk/SWND0l7Ka9/acKFGhskfHo5+xLkWLASPgaLc8IZFrvddQCaDz/n2BbxLrpHEyDtnCWGgqxDVNDls4HJnaLs8AeSphPVLMflVCvHx9yLH3s54gTa0AkzVkNhzQcvp+7s7kLHIAd0y1UQAyevo=; X-YMail-OSG: N.9dIM8VM1mvy6LnuLl0xWa1nWZG_DTkBR26xTLjA2vf.0p qiMU8eNnL4igTK_UH1DaZ.ILRdG2quxQQfkvDv2NvhSSWZNvbYnRF_kgkIky h.u29ZaODYHiqBBf7oMOyKMuktJ3sBcvrAbSG3O101.S1nogCPGVgr_XpvNs 7UzDFW6r36.ogER4kUGlJsopZCFQSrQqbC4eNNoTMGRQP4jUPiPqxGk43sUF hAHWOGd5kMRZSV5svSqstEc6Bv80d6nSJM6TI001Oalyi.FgicEjdef8ntRs FYOTJJOggJzlFIGGltEUbWxQXWV30KD45oov3VtYa4lBfpSx8Qh_oa00WwCE GScIsfQCyp4r3pcmCoOHwj418r6V1kcDw.LxgEMipEjIOJc2.GE6W29fiSOF OYgYH49tFhzt7gaLOWSIJ_cB2QOQpFLZ_2id6XrSeOUy5sjgKfUjx.FLZPwE O.lPR2E8- X-Mailer: YahooMailWebService/0.8.114.317681 References: <1316957834.67111.YahooMailNeo@web130112.mail.mud.yahoo.com> <1317676210.22894.YahooMailNeo@web130106.mail.mud.yahoo.com> <1317844780.69103.YahooMailNeo@web130122.mail.mud.yahoo.com> <1317849643.25371.YahooMailNeo@web130122.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <1317851976.52693.YahooMailNeo@web130110.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Date: Wed, 5 Oct 2011 14:59:36 -0700 (PDT) From: Alex Davis Reply-To: Alex Davis Subject: Re: Regression: i915 blank issue on kernel 3.1.0-rc3 To: Keith Packard , "terraluna977@gmail.com" , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , Matthew Garrett In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org .From: Keith Packard >> The patch I sent in a previous message in this thread makes it work correctly. >> If I added an explanation and a 'Signed-by' line, could someone pick it up? > >It would almost certainly break some other machine. We could, of course, >use a quirk to make your machine work, but that's something of a >last-resort as it won't fix any other machines. >> Yes, but I have no backlight control: the screen is too bright to look at comfortably. This sounds whiny. I'm sorry about that. >Ok, so the new native backlight driver works, but conflicts with your >previous backlight driver (whatever that was). It does not conflict. The previous backlight driver, dell_backlight, is still present on my machine; it just doesn't work, and never did. > Adding support for the native backlight driver (Matthew's patch) and disabling the old >backlight mechanisms makes everything better. Right? No. The patch is against the native backlight code; it's not necessary to disable the other backlight.