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Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0702281654230.14127@pentafluge.infradead.org> Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2007 16:55:00 +0000 (GMT) From: James Simmons <jsimmons@...radead.org> To: David Miller <davem@...emloft.net> cc: Joel.Becker@...cle.com, lists@...russian.com, rpurdie@...ys.net, akpm@...ux-foundation.org, linux-fbdev-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: [Linux-fbdev-devel] no backlight on radeon after recent kernel "upgrade"s 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 <jsimmons@...radead.org> > Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2007 15:55:24 +0000 (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 if you > > want. These problems are showing up because of stale .config files. > > BTW, enabling the backlight option broke things for me with > Radeon on sparc64 too, FWIW. > > And when the option was presented to me for the first time, > the default was yes, so that's what I gave it. > > This is what a lot of users would see. > - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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