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Re: backlight control and debian kernel 2.6.10



On Tue, Mar 01, 2005 at 05:51:15PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 01, 2005 at 05:56:44PM +0100, Guido Guenther wrote:
> > On Tue, Mar 01, 2005 at 05:33:49PM +0100, Djoume SALVETTI wrote:
> > > Le mardi 03/01/05 Sven Luther <sven.luther@wanadoo.fr> a écrit :
> > > > I suppose this means i need to rebuild 2.6.8-11 with rivafb builtin ? 
> > > 
> > > I dont think everything is included in 2.6.8 for backlight control,
> > > Guido patch for 2.6.10 doesn't apply cleanly on it and I don't have the
> > > skill to port it.
> > Well, backlight support is in rivafb since quiet some time but only
> > 2.6.10 has everything to get rivafb to work at all on newer powerbooks
> > (NV30 based). The backport would basically be to use the
> > drivers/video/rivafb/ directory from 2.6.10, everything else make little
> > sense. This in fact shouldn't be very painfull...
> > Cheers,
> 
> I would be happy to apply that patch if you do and test it for me.
I'd be happy to do so, but I don't have any NV30 hardware and am very
short on time at the moment, sorry.
Cheers,
 -- Guido

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