Bug#649754: xserver-xorg-video-nouveau: No backlight control on nv34m (geforce fx go5200)

[Sven Joachim <svenjoac@gmx.de>]

On 2011-11-23 20:28 +0100, cfr wrote:

> nouveau modules are used and graphics look much better but there is no
> backlight/brightness control.

This seems to have been reported upstream at
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=31122.

> If I hibernate, the computer resumes fine,
> I think, but it is impossible to see anything because the backlight is
> off and there is no control.

And this is https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=31120.  If you
want to follow up there, make sure to upgrade your kernel to 3.1, since
the currently running kernel…

> Linux version 2.6.39-2-powerpc (Debian 2.6.39-3) (ben@decadent.org.uk) (gcc version 4.4.6 (Debian 4.4.6-6) ) #1 Tue Jul 5 02:51:13 UTC 2011

…is not supported by anyone.

Cheers,
       Sven