Re: G3 iBook LCD brightness in X under kernel 2.4.25 and 2.6.8

2004-11-26 Thread Christof Petig
Frank Murphy schrieb: I'm trying to migrate from a 2.4 to a 2.6 kernel, but I have one last problem keeping me with 2.4.25. There's a problem with adjusting screen brightness under X (4.3.0.dfsg.1-8). I'm running pbbuttonsd 0.6.6-2 with gtkpbbuttons 0.6.4-3 (which are tools that enable the LC

Re: G3 iBook LCD brightness in X under kernel 2.4.25 and 2.6.8

2004-11-29 Thread Christof Petig
Benjamin Herrenschmidt schrieb: What machine model precisely ? If it's an iBook, only the very first one had a mach64 based chip and indeed used atyfb-based brightness control, that might have been broken... My machine is an orange iBook (300MHz), lspci: :00:0b.0 Host bridge: Apple Computer

Re: G3 iBook LCD brightness in X under kernel 2.4.25 and 2.6.8

2004-11-29 Thread Christof Petig
Frank Murphy schrieb: Well, the backlight control is done by writing to one of the LCD register, you can try to track down the values in there and eventually compare with 2.4 I'll try to look at this, but I don't know very much about it. is it possible that using acceleration in the X server

Re: G3 iBook LCD brightness in X under kernel 2.4.25 and 2.6.8

2004-11-30 Thread Christof Petig
Christof Petig schrieb: My last experiment with 2.6.9 gave me (IIRC): The console is switched to a text console, some power management transition messages appear, the hard disc parks, the text remains readable ... Pressing a screen gives CD spinup, more messages and the computer switches back