Re: [Regression] Laptop screen dark when lid closed and reopened.with 3.1
From: Keith Packard
Date: Sun Sep 25 2011 - 16:29:50 EST
On Sun, 25 Sep 2011 06:23:24 -0700 (PDT), Alex Davis <alex14641@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Result with 3.0.x: password dialog appears. This is the correct result.
>
> Result with git://anongit.freedesktop.org/~keithp/linux: screen is dark.
> Manually adjusting the brightness reveals a functioning mouse cursor, but
> no password dialog. Switching to a text console and back to the X session
> reveals the dialog.
Are yo using the drm-intel-fixes branch there? That's the one with the
FBC disable stuff.
Alternatively, you can just disable FBC manually by adding the kernel
argument:
i915.i915_enable_fbc=0
> Result with 3.1rc7 with aaa6fd2a004147bf32fce05720938236de3361d9 reverted:
> screen with a functioning mouse cursor, but no password dialog. Switching
> to a text console and back to the X session reveals the dialog. Brightness
> cannot be controlled.
Ok, this is the second report of the new native backlight code failing;
not looking good for Matthew today :-)
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