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

["Clea F. Rees" <reescf@gmail.com>]

On 23 November 2011 19:57, Sven Joachim <svenjoac@gmx.de> wrote:
>   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.

Thanks for the info. 3.1 is installed but panics immediately so this
is not currently an option for me. Hopefully that will get sorted
eventually, though. The problem is definitely present in 3.0 which I'm
not using because it is unstable (though it doesn't oops on boot like
3.1).

- cfr