Re: [Linux-fbdev-devel] no backlight on radeon after recent kernel "upgrade"s

2007-03-01 Thread James Simmons
Could you. Right now I'm busy with the DRM/fbdev device management. On Thu, 1 Mar 2007, Richard Purdie wrote: > On Wed, 2007-02-28 at 16:55 +, James Simmons wrote: > > So the problem is not the configuration but that for some reason the > > backlight state is set to off by default. > > May

Re: [Linux-fbdev-devel] no backlight on radeon after recent kernel "upgrade"s

2007-03-01 Thread Richard Purdie
On Wed, 2007-02-28 at 16:55 +, James Simmons wrote: > So the problem is not the configuration but that for some reason the > backlight state is set to off by default. Maybe, maybe not. I'm not sure there's been enough information to conclude that. At the moment, I'd like a patch which makes

Re: [Linux-fbdev-devel] no backlight on radeon after recent kernel "upgrade"s

2007-02-28 Thread James Simmons
So the problem is not the configuration but that for some reason the backlight state is set to off by default. On Thu, 22 Feb 2007, David Miller wrote: > From: James Simmons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2007 15:55:24 + (GMT) > > > I just tested various confirations of backlight

Re: [Linux-fbdev-devel] no backlight on radeon after recent kernel "upgrade"s

2007-02-22 Thread David Miller
From: James Simmons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2007 15:55:24 + (GMT) > I just tested various confirations of backlight support. Backlight is > ALWAYS selected by default when you select a particular fbdev driver that > has backlight support. You just have the option to turn it off

Re: [Linux-fbdev-devel] no backlight on radeon after recent kernel "upgrade"s

2007-02-22 Thread James Simmons
> On Thu, Feb 22, 2007 at 01:11:18AM +, James Simmons wrote: > > > *$> grep BACKLIGH /boot/config-2.6.20 > > > # CONFIG_FB_BACKLIGHT is not set > > > CONFIG_BACKLIGHT_LCD_SUPPORT=y > > > CONFIG_BACKLIGHT_CLASS_DEVICE=m > > > CONFIG_BACKLIGHT_DEVICE=y > > > > You need to explictly enable the

Re: [Linux-fbdev-devel] no backlight on radeon after recent kernel "upgrade"s

2007-02-21 Thread Joel Becker
On Thu, Feb 22, 2007 at 01:11:18AM +, James Simmons wrote: > > *$> grep BACKLIGH /boot/config-2.6.20 > > # CONFIG_FB_BACKLIGHT is not set > > CONFIG_BACKLIGHT_LCD_SUPPORT=y > > CONFIG_BACKLIGHT_CLASS_DEVICE=m > > CONFIG_BACKLIGHT_DEVICE=y > > You need to explictly enable the backlight for you

Re: [Linux-fbdev-devel] no backlight on radeon after recent kernel "upgrade"s

2007-02-21 Thread James Simmons
> I built 2.6.20-mm2 without backlight support > $> grep BACKLIGH /boot/config-2.6.20-mm2 > # CONFIG_BACKLIGHT_LCD_SUPPORT is not set > # CONFIG_FB_BACKLIGHT is not set > # CONFIG_FB_RIVA_BACKLIGHT is not set > # CONFIG_FB_RADEON_BACKLIGHT is not set > > that "eliminated" the problem. Also I can