Bug#460654: xserver-xorg-video-intel: Brightness doesn't work out of the box with i965
On Wed, Feb 06, 2008 at 07:49:55PM +0100, Brice Goglin wrote:
> Mike Hommey wrote:
> > Package: xserver-xorg-video-intel
> > Version: 2:2.2.0+git20080107-1
> > Severity: normal
> >
> > By default, on my laptop, the "kernel" BACKLIGHT_CONTROL is used, and
> > that doesn't quite help xbacklight to work. I don't know what X uses in
> > such a case, but it appears that tweaking
> > /sys/class/backlight/sony/brightness doesn't work (the laptop is a vaio)
> > either, so it might just be a problem with the kernel driver.
> >
> > Anyways, switching to the "native" BACKLIGHT_CONTROL makes xbacklight
> > work.
> >
>
> Mike,
>
> Can you try 2:2.2.0.90-2 which entered unstable today? If it doesn't
> help, we need to forward this bug upstream at
> http://bugzilla.freedesktop.org (product xorg, component Driver/Intel).
> I'll do it if you can't.
It still happens with 2:2.2.0.90-1 that I took from incoming. I filed
the bug upstream.
Mike
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