Re: [PATCH] ACPI: video: DMI workaround broken Acer 5710 BIOSenabling display brightness

From: Matthew Garrett
Date: Mon Jun 14 2010 - 10:26:06 EST


On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 10:17:44AM +0300, Ozan ÃaÄlayan wrote:
> Acer Aspire 5710 suffers from a similar ACPI problem reported at:
> http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13121

Bleah. Is this really necessary? If we set maximum brightness and then
read back something other than maximum brightness, then that gives us
the offset.

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