Re: no backlight on radeon after recent kernel "upgrade"s

Could you. Right now I'm busy with the DRM/fbdev device management.

On Thu, 1 Mar 2007, Richard Purdie wrote:

On Wed, 2007-02-28 at 16:55 +0000, James Simmons wrote:

quoted

So the problem is not the configuration but that for some reason the 
backlight state is set to off by default.

Maybe, maybe not. I'm not sure there's been enough information to
conclude that.

At the moment, I'd like a patch which makes backlight usage configurable
at runtime though a module parameter and defaults to off in all cases
except the powermac one. I'd like to get something into the tree,
preferably before the next -rc, since at the moment things are breaking
for people. If you haven't time, say so and I'll have a look and see if
I can work one out.

Cheers,

Richard

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