Questions on adding backlight support for the i915 driver

2015-01-27 Thread Elizabeth Myers
s, and some kernel development experience, as well as general C experience, but I'm not by any means an expert on the matter. Cheers, Elizabeth Myers ___ freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-curre

Re: Questions on adding backlight support for the i915 driver

2015-01-30 Thread Elizabeth Myers
On 01/30/15 09:17, John Baldwin wrote: > Humm. If the code is going to live in the drm driver, then I would > start with hanging a sysctl off of the drm device itself. (Each new-bus > device_t has a sysctl ctx you can get to hang new nodes off of the > device's node.) I'm wondering if that's the

Re: Questions on adding backlight support for the i915 driver

2015-01-30 Thread Elizabeth Myers
On 01/30/15 17:45, John Baldwin wrote: > On Friday, January 30, 2015 04:45:45 PM Elizabeth Myers wrote: >> On 01/30/15 09:17, John Baldwin wrote: >>> Humm. If the code is going to live in the drm driver, then I would >>> start with hanging a sysctl off of the drm de

Re: Questions on adding backlight support for the i915 driver

2015-01-30 Thread Elizabeth Myers
On 01/30/15 19:31, Adrian Chadd wrote: > So, this is one of the discussions that popped up in the linux side of > things, that we will end up eventually pulling into freebsd when the > i915 code is updated. > > The raw value is (a) different per setup, and (b) may be inverted to > work correctly.

Re: Questions on adding backlight support for the i915 driver

2015-01-30 Thread Elizabeth Myers
On 01/30/15 17:25, Justin Hibbits wrote: > Would it make sense to have a generic 'backlight' driver framework > that we plug into? I wrote a backlight driver (well, 2, but both show > up as dev.backlight in sysctl) for powerpc, but if we want to have > even more individual backlight drivers, I thi

Re: Questions on adding backlight support for the i915 driver

2015-01-30 Thread Elizabeth Myers
On 01/30/15 23:20, Adrian Chadd wrote: > Do you have brightness buttons anywhere? What happens when you set it > through this API and then you use the backlight buttons? I do, but FreeBSD doesn't have the needed WMI doodads to interact with this, nor do I have the needed Dell laptop doodads in th

Re: drm2 regression: backlight adjustment on ivybridge no longer works

2015-01-30 Thread Elizabeth Myers
On 01/31/15 01:11, Miguel Clara wrote: > On the laptop I'm running current, if relevant > > Loading acpi_video doesn't do much I don't see any sysctl related to > "lcd0" or "birightness", this is one of those computers with "hybrid" > graphics, intel + ATI card, so not sure if that's somewhat

Re: drm2 regression: backlight adjustment on ivybridge no longer works

2015-01-30 Thread Elizabeth Myers
On 01/31/15 01:28, Miguel Clara wrote: > I saw the discussion about how to approach the issue, but totally missed > the patch :D > > Thanks, I'll try that... I'm assuming it will make no difference on > 10/stable yet? only current? Excellent question! I have absolutely no idea. I don't even think

Re: drm2 regression: backlight adjustment on ivybridge no longer works

2015-01-31 Thread Elizabeth Myers
On 01/31/15 02:00, Miguel Clara wrote: > I had to patch manually, for some reason the diff was rejected, but I t > compiled and I've instead on 10/stable... problem is this is the laptop > where I am typing this :D > > Its also upgrading some ports, so not a good time to reboot, but I'll > post re

Re: Questions on adding backlight support for the i915 driver

2015-01-31 Thread Elizabeth Myers
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Re: Questions on adding backlight support for the i915 driver

2015-01-31 Thread Elizabeth Myers
On 01/30/15 17:16, Adrian Chadd wrote: > Hi, > > Which chipset is it? Oh, I missed this, sorry. I have an Ivy Bridge chipset. > Loading acpi_video causes a handful of interconnected pieces to shift > (as IIRC at that point acpi_video also states that it wishes to take > control of video setting,

Re: libXO-ification - Why - and is it a symptom of deeper issues?

2015-11-16 Thread Elizabeth Myers
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