Re: Brightness control fails between 3.6.8 and 3.7.0-rc7 (Intel 915/Dell Vostro 3560)

2012-12-02 Thread Tom St Denis
- Original Message - > From: "Daniel Vetter" > To: "Tom St Denis" > Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, "intel-gfx" > , "dri-devel" > > Sent: Sunday, 2 December, 2012 9:42:39 AM > Subject: Re: Brightness control fails between 3.6.8 and 3.7

Re: Brightness control fails between 3.6.8 and 3.7.0-rc7 (Intel 915/Dell Vostro 3560)

2012-12-02 Thread Daniel Vetter
On Sun, Dec 2, 2012 at 2:49 PM, Tom St Denis wrote: > Ok so on v3.7-rc1 [and I suspect up] I can manually control the brightness by > echoing to > > /sys/class/backlight/intel_backlight/brightness > > But I still can't use the buttons to control it (it only goes one tick down > from max and stop

Re: Brightness control fails between 3.6.8 and 3.7.0-rc7 (Intel 915/Dell Vostro 3560)

2012-12-02 Thread Tom St Denis
iel Vetter" > To: "Tom St Denis" > Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, "intel-gfx" > , "dri-devel" > > Sent: Sunday, 2 December, 2012 6:43:14 AM > Subject: Re: Brightness control fails between 3.6.8 and 3.7.0-rc7 (Intel > 915/Dell Vostro 35

Re: Brightness control fails between 3.6.8 and 3.7.0-rc7 (Intel 915/Dell Vostro 3560)

2012-12-02 Thread Daniel Vetter
Including a bunch more lists to the cc. On Sun, Dec 2, 2012 at 12:42 PM, Daniel Vetter wrote: > On Sun, Dec 2, 2012 at 12:32 PM, Tom St Denis > wrote: >> I've narrowed it down to sometime between v3.6.8 and v3.7-rc1. So none of >> the v3.7 series will work with this GPU/panel. > > Hm, that's

Re: Brightness control fails between 3.6.8 and 3.7.0-rc7 (Intel 915/Dell Vostro 3560)

2012-12-02 Thread Daniel Vetter
On Sun, Dec 2, 2012 at 12:32 PM, Tom St Denis wrote: > I've narrowed it down to sometime between v3.6.8 and v3.7-rc1. So none of > the v3.7 series will work with this GPU/panel. Hm, that's still a few hundred relevant commits intermingled with a few thousand that likely don't matter ;-) Can you

Re: Brightness control fails between 3.6.8 and 3.7.0-rc7 (Intel 915/Dell Vostro 3560)

2012-12-02 Thread Tom St Denis
is" > To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > Cc: "daniel vetter" , mj...@srcf.ucam.org > Sent: Saturday, 1 December, 2012 6:49:51 PM > Subject: Brightness control fails between 3.6.8 and 3.7.0-rc7 (Intel 915/Dell > Vostro 3560) > > Hello all, > > Somewhere betwee

Brightness control fails between 3.6.8 and 3.7.0-rc7 (Intel 915/Dell Vostro 3560)

2012-12-01 Thread Tom St Denis
Hello all, Somewhere between v3.6.8 [vanilla] and 3.7.0-rc7 the ability to control the LCD brightness was broken on this laptop [details below]. Basically it locks the brightness as full brightness and cannot be changed. It works properly in v3.6.8 though [and below...]. Details: 00:02.0 VG