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Re: backlight control on NV chips



On Tue, Apr 27, 2004 at 10:13:05AM +1000, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> 
> > > Interesting. Does adjusting the brightness works at all with rivafb ?
> > > I though it only did full on vs full off ?
> > I posted a patch for this a while ago.
> 
> Either I missed it or my memory is failing me ;)
Well it was for 2.4, so don't bother. I'll send a new one for 2.6 once
rivafb is working again...
The old patch for 2.4 is still here though:
 http://honk.physik.uni-konstanz.de/~agx/linux-ppc/kernel/rivafb-backlight.diff

> > Well, I simply didn't get around to do it yet. I'm using the patch for
> > several months now, so incorrect values don't seem to cause any harm.
> > If you choose values between 1 and 15 the values will always be _lower_
> > than the ones set by MacOS X.
> 
> Well, I'm concerned about other models who would try to use your patch
> in fact....
They'd better not ;)
Cheers,
 -- Guido

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