On Thu, Feb 22, 2007 at 01:11:18AM +0000, James Simmons wrote:

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*$> grep BACKLIGH /boot/config-2.6.20 
# CONFIG_FB_BACKLIGHT is not set
CONFIG_BACKLIGHT_LCD_SUPPORT=y
CONFIG_BACKLIGHT_CLASS_DEVICE=m
CONFIG_BACKLIGHT_DEVICE=y

You need to explictly enable the backlight for your fbdev driver. It 
doesn't do the selecting magically for you.
Jus do a make "favorite"config and go to the fbdev menu and select the 
backlight option for your fbdev driver.

	I would think that we'd always want to enable the backlight.
How are people supposed to Just Know that the kernel defaults to a black
LCD?

Joel


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