Re: [Intel-gfx] Linux 3.11-rc2 [backlight] [ASUS N56VZ]

2013-08-04 Thread * SAMÍ *
When I make acpi_video_backlight_quirks() return false: - the Fn+x keys are not working anymore (remember that they didn't work in 3.10 nor 3.9) - At least the backlight remains on at boot. - Gnome brightness settings do not work anymore. Neither do xbacklight. - Writing to /sys/class/backlight/

Re: [Intel-gfx] Linux 3.11-rc2 [backlight] [ASUS N56VZ]

2013-08-04 Thread * SAMÍ *
Hi Rafael, did you commit a full revert? Because I am experiencing quite weird things in rc3. Do we have a bug opened to discuss about it? Here is what I can observe: 1) During boot, probably when loading the driver, backlight gets off (or to a level low enough to make me feel it is off) 2) Wh

Re: [Intel-gfx] Linux 3.11-rc2 [backlight] [ASUS N56VZ]

2013-07-29 Thread Aaron Lu
On 07/30/2013 03:36 AM, * SAMÍ * wrote: > Hi Rafael, > > > did you commit a full revert? > Because I am experiencing quite weird things in rc3. > Do we have a bug opened to discuss about it? Yes we have: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=52951 I'll look into this issue. Thanks, Aaron

Re: [Intel-gfx] Linux 3.11-rc2 [backlight] [ASUS N56VZ]

2013-07-29 Thread Rafael J. Wysocki
On Monday, July 29, 2013 11:53:59 PM * SAMÍ * wrote: > When I make acpi_video_backlight_quirks() return false: > - the Fn+x keys are not working anymore (remember that they didn't work > in 3.10 nor 3.9) > - At least the backlight remains on at boot. > - Gnome brightness settings do not work anymo

Re: [Intel-gfx] Linux 3.11-rc2 [backlight] [ASUS N56VZ]

2013-07-29 Thread Rafael J. Wysocki
On Monday, July 29, 2013 09:36:31 PM * SAMÍ * wrote: > Hi Rafael, > > > did you commit a full revert? Yes, but I left acpi_video_backlight_quirks() (in drivers/acpi/video_detect.c) that is used to decide what to do with _DOS. Can you please check if making that function always return 'false' ma

Re: [Intel-gfx] Linux 3.11-rc2 [backlight] [ASUS N56VZ]

2013-07-25 Thread Rafael J. Wysocki
On Thursday, July 25, 2013 03:34:10 PM Jani Nikula wrote: > On Thu, 25 Jul 2013, "Rafael J. Wysocki" wrote: > > On Thursday, July 25, 2013 11:09:27 AM Jani Nikula wrote: > >> On Thu, 25 Jul 2013, "Rafael J. Wysocki" wrote: > >> > Well, I wonder what about the appended (untested) patch? > >> > >>

Re: [Intel-gfx] Linux 3.11-rc2 [backlight] [ASUS N56VZ]

2013-07-25 Thread Jani Nikula
On Thu, 25 Jul 2013, "Rafael J. Wysocki" wrote: > On Thursday, July 25, 2013 11:09:27 AM Jani Nikula wrote: >> On Thu, 25 Jul 2013, "Rafael J. Wysocki" wrote: >> > Well, I wonder what about the appended (untested) patch? >> >> Rafael, before going there, I've been trying to wrap my (poor, rusty

Re: [Intel-gfx] Linux 3.11-rc2 [backlight] [ASUS N56VZ]

2013-07-25 Thread Rafael J. Wysocki
On Thursday, July 25, 2013 11:09:27 AM Jani Nikula wrote: > On Thu, 25 Jul 2013, "Rafael J. Wysocki" wrote: > > On Wednesday, July 24, 2013 02:05:15 PM Linus Torvalds wrote: > >> On Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 2:02 PM, Daniel Vetter > >> wrote: > >> > > >> > I think a i915 module option should be doabl

Re: [Intel-gfx] Linux 3.11-rc2 [backlight] [ASUS N56VZ]

2013-07-25 Thread Jani Nikula
On Thu, 25 Jul 2013, "Rafael J. Wysocki" wrote: > On Wednesday, July 24, 2013 02:05:15 PM Linus Torvalds wrote: >> On Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 2:02 PM, Daniel Vetter >> wrote: >> > >> > I think a i915 module option should be doable, otoh people seem to have a >> > viable workaround by setting a diff

Re: [Intel-gfx] Linux 3.11-rc2 [backlight] [ASUS N56VZ]

2013-07-24 Thread Rafael J. Wysocki
On Wednesday, July 24, 2013 02:05:15 PM Linus Torvalds wrote: > On Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 2:02 PM, Daniel Vetter wrote: > > > > I think a i915 module option should be doable, otoh people seem to have a > > viable workaround by setting a different acpi os version already. > > At least the original c

Re: [Intel-gfx] Linux 3.11-rc2 [backlight] [ASUS N56VZ]

2013-07-24 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 2:02 PM, Daniel Vetter wrote: > > I think a i915 module option should be doable, otoh people seem to have a > viable workaround by setting a different acpi os version already. At least the original claim was that if you set a non-windows8 acpi os version, you hit other bug

Re: [Intel-gfx] Linux 3.11-rc2 [backlight] [ASUS N56VZ]

2013-07-24 Thread Daniel Vetter
On Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 10:39 PM, Linus Torvalds wrote: > On Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 12:39 PM, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: >> >> Well, there seems to be a number of people who'll be equally unhappy if I >> don't >> do that. Unfortunately for you, things work for them without that patch. > > So I thi

Re: [Intel-gfx] Linux 3.11-rc2 [backlight] [ASUS N56VZ]

2013-07-24 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 12:39 PM, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > > Well, there seems to be a number of people who'll be equally unhappy if I > don't > do that. Unfortunately for you, things work for them without that patch. So I think we have to revert the behavior back, but I wonder if we could ke

Re: [Intel-gfx] Linux 3.11-rc2 [backlight] [ASUS N56VZ]

2013-07-24 Thread Rafael J. Wysocki
On Wednesday, July 24, 2013 08:43:00 PM * SAMÍ * wrote: > Hi, > > it seems a lot of people are complaining about the backlight pull > request of RC2. > > This is to tell you how it saved my life: > - Changing brightness from Fn keys does work > - Writing to /sys/class/backlight/intel_backlight/b