Re: backlight control on NV chips

[Michael Schmitz <schmitz@opal.biophys.uni-duesseldorf.de>]

> On Tue, Apr 27, 2004 at 01:53:18PM +0200, Michael Schmitz wrote:
> > I remember the patch but it didn't help on my rivafb machine (800 MHz fp
> > iMac). I've not tried the user space tool, should happen RSN. I'd not be
> > surprised if it failed (no pun intended, just my bad luck with rivafb).
> But the console blanking worked, didn't it? If so we could try to figure
> things out with a little tool to snarf registers I wrote.

Yep, at least in 2.4 it did work. I had mixed succes with 2.6 (panic
before or shortly after fbcon init mostly). Wish I had a second firewire
host, too.

	Michael