On Thu, Dec 13, 2007 at 06:57:02PM +0100, Michel Dänzer wrote: > > The option description seems misleading; even pbbuttonsd seems unable to > change > the backlight level on my PowerBook5,8 with it disabled, and I haven't found > any other way to change it. It seems to be at 100% all the time, which is > pretty bad in general, especially on battery. > > The fact that the line > > radeonfb: Backlight initialized (radeonbl0) > > is now missing from the kernel output probably confirms that this option is > required for backlight control to work at all on PowerMacs. Whether > CONFIG_PMAC_BACKLIGHT_LEGACY is still needed I'm not sure though.
yup that is already reported. please check out daily builds of sid, see apt lines http://wiki.debian.org/DebianKernel -- maks
