Re: 2.6.30-rc1 (latest git): thinkpad-acpi: cannot control brightness with hotkeys (BISECTED)

From: Matthew Garrett
Date: Wed Apr 15 2009 - 17:00:38 EST


On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 10:57:12PM +0200, Niel Lambrechts wrote:

> So is there any chance of getting this fix merged any time soon (at
> least before 2.6.30 is out)?

Yeah, I'd hope it's merged before .30. I've sent it to the maintainers.

> I'd love to use KMS, but I have no idea how to troubleshoot the freeze
> I'm getting after the main gdm login screen. Or is there still a future
> i915 milestone(s) to be reached before I can realistically do
> i915.modeset=1, given the large amount of activity around this in recent
> times?

There's still a lot of work being done in this area, and it can be a bit
sensitive to you using the correct X driver version with a given kernel
version.

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