From: Alex Davis <alex14641@yahoo.com>
To: "mjg59@srcf.ucam.org" <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org>
Cc: "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] dell_laptop: add disable_backlight module parameter
Date: Mon, 2 Dec 2013 05:30:37 -0800 (PST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1385991037.32894.YahooMailNeo@web160406.mail.bf1.yahoo.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1385948627.51494.YahooMailNeo@web160404.mail.bf1.yahoo.com>
>On Sunday, December 1, 2013 8:43 PM, Alex Davis <alex14641@yahoo.com> wrote:
>I have a Dell Inspiron N7010 Laptop with Intel graphics. When the dell-laptop module is >loaded,
>two backlight device devices are created; dell_backlight, and intel_backlight from the >Intel
>graphics driver. The dell_backlight device is non-functional, but the graphics subsystem >uses
>it instead of the functioning intel_backlight device. The result is that, when running >KDE,
>screen dimming does not work. I've added a module parameter, disable_backlight, which when
>true will disable the dell_backlight device, and leave only the intel_backlight: with >this,
>screen dimming works.
>
>Signed-off-by: Alex Davis <alex14641@yahoo.com>
This patch is against 3.10.
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2013-12-02 1:43 Alex Davis
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