linux-kernel - Re: no backlight on radeon after recent kernel "upgrade"s

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Date:	Thu, 22 Feb 2007 00:34:31 +0000
From:	Richard Purdie <rpurdie@...ys.net>
To:	Yaroslav Halchenko <lists@...russian.com>,
	James Simmons <jsimmons@...radead.org>
Cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-fbdev-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: no backlight on radeon after recent kernel "upgrade"s

On Wed, 2007-02-21 at 00:56 -0500, Yaroslav Halchenko wrote:
> I didn't mention 2.6.20-mm1 and got to see -mm2 so it is the one which
> Iv'e tried, but, once again, I experienced the same issue with 19-mm?
> kernels.
> 
> I built 2.6.20-mm2 without backlight support
> $> grep BACKLIGH /boot/config-2.6.20-mm2 
> # CONFIG_BACKLIGHT_LCD_SUPPORT is not set
> # CONFIG_FB_BACKLIGHT is not set
> # CONFIG_FB_RIVA_BACKLIGHT is not set
> # CONFIG_FB_RADEON_BACKLIGHT is not set
> 
> that "eliminated" the problem. Also I can see the screen with pure
> 2.6.20 with backlight support (whatever it does since after
> loading lcd, backlight modules, my /sys/class/{lcd,backlight} are empty):
> 
> *$> 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
> 
> 
> > Also, do you normally see files under /sys/class/lcd?
> nope... after I load lcd module, no files under :-/ regardless either it
> is mm or not. But there are files under /sys/class/backlight/ for mm2
> compiled with backlight support (whenever the screen is dark as per my
> original email)

There should be no files appearing under /sys/class/lcd, so thats all
normal. There is another report with similar symptoms which also sounds
like enabling the following options are at fault:

# CONFIG_FB_RIVA_BACKLIGHT is not set
# CONFIG_FB_RADEON_BACKLIGHT is not set

I suspect these options only work on certain hardware and aren't
generic. James, any idea what hardware these do/don't work with?

Worst case, we set them to depend on PMAC_BACKLIGHT again I guess...

Richard


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