On Mon, Mar 12, 2012 at 11:12:17PM -0400, Pradeep Subrahmanion wrote:

Hi ,

  Brightness control was not  working on Acer Aspire 4736 using default ACPI interface.  acer-acpi also do not support 4730 series since it uses new WMI interface.
This driver adds brightness control by accessing the LBB PCI configuration register. This approach may also work on other laptops in 4730 series .But currently ,  it is only tested  for 
Aspire 4736. 

1) If there's a WMI interface to brightness control, why not use that?
2) You're hitting a hardware resource that belongs to the i915 driver, 
which may well cause problems.
3) Why does the ACPI interface not work? Can you attach the acpidump 
output?

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