[Nouveau] Put acpi/backlight code into kernel

schmirrwurst at googlemail.com schmirrwurst at googlemail.com
Sat Aug 22 11:34:28 PDT 2009


Hi, 

I'm trying to bring devs to support for backlight on nv50 cards for above 1 
year, without any success
A lot of laptop (from mac, hp, samsung) doesn't have laptop_panel in hal, and 
therefore no support for acpi/backlight..., and no entry in /proc/acpi/video 
nor /sys/class/backlight

Kernel team is not reacting, hal team won't fix, devicekit need standardise 
i/o...

I've tried nouveau, the acpi/backlight support works pretty well, but the 
driver itself is unusable for lambda users, it needs some times...
So I'm asking if someone could put the backlight code in a kernel module, or 
in the kernel itself, for people to have backlight support even when using 
nvidia driver or nv, or vesa... ???


More information about the Nouveau mailing list
OSZAR »