Re: [PATCH 2/2] platform/x86: panasonic-laptop: allow to use all hotkeys

[Stefan Seyfried <stefan.seyfried@googlemail.com>]

Hi Hans,

the patched ACPI video module DOES WORK.

I just managed to actually compile the unmodified source code m(
After patching acpi_video.c, compiling and installing it so that it 
actually gets used, everything works fine now.

On 21.06.22 12:23, Stefan Seyfried wrote:
> Hi Hans,
> 
> On 21.06.22 11:26, Hans de Goede wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> On 6/20/22 20:10, Stefan Seyfried wrote:
>>> Well, the non-working backlight is coming from the i915 driver, but 
>>> as this is a very old Chipset (i855 GM) I'd rather be happy it works 
>>> at all instead of complaining ;-)
>>> (I have another machine of similar age, hp nc6000 with ati graphics, 
>>> and there is no way getting it to work somewhat reliably at all)
>>
>> Ah right, you've got a panasonic + a native intel backlight device.
>>
>> We are going to need a quirk to (eventually also depending on other 
>> changes)
>> disable the broken intel backlight device.
>>
>> But that won't fix the keys issue, at least not without an extra
>> quirk just for that.
>>
>> I wonder if your machine supports the backlight control part of
>> the ACPI video bus at all. If not that would explain why it is
>> not reporting brightness keys and that would also give us a way
>> to solve this without an extra quirk.
>>
>> And that would actually also avoid the need for a backlight
>> quirk too.
>>
>> Can you pass "acpi_backlight=video" on the kernel commandline
>> and see if a /sys/class/backlight/acpi_video0 device then
>> shows up. If it does _not_ show up then indeed there is no
>> ACPI backlight control at all.
> 
> Nothing new shows up, just panasonic and intel_backlight as before.
> 
>> In that case please give the attached patches a try on top
>> of my last series.
> 
> they do not fix the brightness keys for me.

YES they do fix it. I just need to actually use the patched module :-)

> I did not have time to put in some debugging and will be traveling for 
> the rest of the week, but I'll take the toughbook with me and will try 
> to debug this later ;-)
> 
>> The acpi_video patch should fix your brightness keys then and
> 
> apparently it does not :-(
It does.

Thanks
	Stefan
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Stefan Seyfried

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