"Clea F. Rees" <ree...@gmail.com> wrote: Hi,
> Thanks. Looks like it is a bug in nouveau... And nouveau is the only usable > graphics driver for my hardware. The alternative meant I kept running out of > colours and rendered many applications unusable (and very, very slow). You should file a bug against Nouveau asking for backlight support. My recollection is that the non accelerated drivers had support for backlight control on ppc and that's what we used. > Question: is it possible to persuade pommed to enable the volume and eject > buttons? Or is this better done in some other way if backlight control isn't > available? There was a dummy backlight method at some point, I can't remember whether it's still in or not. In any case, you have to modify the source to use a dummy backlight driver. See pommed.c, the entry for your hardware. JB. -- Julien BLACHE <jbla...@debian.org> | Debian, because code matters more Debian & GNU/Linux Developer | <http://www.debian.org> Public key available on <http://www.jblache.org> - KeyID: FA1E 5292 GPG Fingerprint : CC1A 2FE4 76FE 444A CD23 A5CD 26E9 8AEA FA1E 5292 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org