[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 397617] Re: brightness no more working on karmic (KMS)

2010-04-14 Thread Drew Snellgrove
I haven't done extensive regression testing to prove it was the specific patch above but the issue was resolved between Lucid alpha-3 and beta-1. I suspect it was in the commit for bug 511965 in kernel 2.6.32-19.28. That patch may need to be expanded upon to include support for additional Macbook m

[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 397617] Re: brightness no more working on karmic (KMS)

2010-04-03 Thread Drew Snellgrove
This is entirely fixed for my Macbook 2,1 using the latest Lucid liveCD (linux-generic 2.6.32.19.20)! Brightness goes all the way from fully bright to pleasantly off on the lowest notch with no modification and using the brightness keys built into the keyboard. I'd be tempted to call the brightne

[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 367309] Re: [i945GM] xrandr backlight control is bizarre on Macbook

2010-04-03 Thread Drew Snellgrove
Yes, this is entirely fixed for my Macbook 2,1 using the latest Lucid liveCD! Brightness goes all the way from fully bright to pleasantly off on the lowest notch natively. I noticed that the highly related bug https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/397617 was just marked Fix Released. I believe that fi

[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 397617] Re: brightness no more working on karmic (KMS)

2010-03-12 Thread Drew Snellgrove
Also still broken on Macbook 2,1 with Lucid alpha-3 -- brightness no more working on karmic (KMS) https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/397617 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu-X, which is the registrant for xf86-video-intel.

[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 428054] Re: xrandr backlight property control missing (when using KMS?)

2009-10-22 Thread Drew Snellgrove
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 397617 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/397617 ** This bug has been marked a duplicate of bug 397617 brightness no more working on karmic (KMS) -- xrandr backlight property control missing (when using KMS?) https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/428054 You r

[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 367309] Re: [i945GM] xrandr backlight control is bizarre on Macbook

2009-10-22 Thread Drew Snellgrove
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xserver-xorg-video- intel/+bug/397617 seems to be the bug for the missing backlight. If you could chime in there with your specs and thoughts it might help. The missing backlight is holding up testing of the wonky backlight =) -- [i945GM] xrandr backlig

[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 397617] Re: brightness no more working on karmic (KMS)

2009-10-22 Thread Drew Snellgrove
There seem to be a number of people, including Macbook users, reporting that their backlight is non-functional in Karmic. This bug seems the most relevant and most comments seemed to point to this one as well. I'm using a Macbook 2,1 and don't have a usable backlight, leaving me stuck at max brig

[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 367309] Re: [i945GM] xrandr backlight control is bizarre on Macbook

2009-10-10 Thread Drew Snellgrove
I've been using Karmic on my Macbook 2,1 since beta but cannot confirm whether this bug is fixed for me since Karmic can't find a backlight device _at all_. There discussion in the kernel mailing lists about a possible fix for this new issue which is macbook specific. I'll update this bug once I'