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Message-ID: <4EA9302B.1010404@science.uva.nl>
Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2011 11:19:23 +0100
From: "Wouter M. Koolen" <wmkoolen@...ence.uva.nl>
To: keithp@...thp.com, mjg@...hat.com
CC: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [bisected] i915 dpms does not switch back light on
Hi guys,
After update from kernel 3.0.8 to 3.1 I encounter the following problem.
When power saving turns off the back light, key/mouse activity does not
turn it back on. I can turn it back on by pressing the "brightness++" key.
The following sequence also leaves the backlight off:
xset dpms force off; xset dpms force on
while the next, conceptually similar sequence, reenables it just fine:
xbacklight -set 0; xbacklight -set 100
In each case the problem only manifests itself on the laptop's internal
panel. The backlight of a second display panel connected to the mini DVI
port (using a VGA converter) is turned back on in each case.
My graphics card is a
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Mobile GM965/GL960
Integrated Graphics Controller (primary) (rev 03)
which is driven by i915.
The problem is perfectly reproducible. Bisection points out that first
bad commit is aaa6fd2a004147bf32fce05720938236de3361d9
Author: Matthew Garrett <mjg@...hat.com> 2011-08-12 11:11:33
Committer: Keith Packard <keithp@...thp.com> 2011-08-15 20:10:25
Parent: 13d83a672e9bbd52ae82c2f611dfd845a957e8b4 (drm/i915: split out
PCH refclk update code)
Branches: linux-3.1.y, master, remotes/origin/linux-3.1.y,
remotes/origin/master
Follows: v3.1-rc1
Precedes: v3.1-rc3
Not all systems expose a firmware or platform mechanism for
changing the backlight intensity on i915, so add native driver support.
I am running Debian testing on a MacBook 4,1 with the following X tools.
xorg 1:7.6+9
xserver-xorg 1:7.6+9
xserver-xorg-core 2:1.11.1.901-2
xserver-xorg-input-all 1:7.6+9
xserver-xorg-input-evdev 1:2.6.0-2+b2
xserver-xorg-input-synaptics 1.4.1-1+b1
xserver-xorg-video-intel 2:2.16.0-1
dmesg, lspci and .config attached.
I hope this information is helpful in sorting out the problem. If not,
don't hesitate to indicate additional information that would be relevant.
With kind regards,
Wouter Koolen
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