Bug#456210: [powerpc] CONFIG_PMAC_BACKLIGHT no longer enabled
On Thu, Dec 13, 2007 at 06:57:02PM +0100, Michel Dänzer wrote:
>
> The option description seems misleading; even pbbuttonsd seems unable to change
> the backlight level on my PowerBook5,8 with it disabled, and I haven't found
> any other way to change it. It seems to be at 100% all the time, which is
> pretty bad in general, especially on battery.
>
> The fact that the line
>
> radeonfb: Backlight initialized (radeonbl0)
>
> is now missing from the kernel output probably confirms that this option is
> required for backlight control to work at all on PowerMacs. Whether
> CONFIG_PMAC_BACKLIGHT_LEGACY is still needed I'm not sure though.
yup that is already reported.
please check out daily builds of sid, see apt lines
http://wiki.debian.org/DebianKernel
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maks
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