tomsrtbt turns off backlight (fwd)

Tom Oehser (tom@toms.net)
Fri, 18 Dec 1998 11:54:47 -0500 (EST)

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Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1998 11:42:39 -0500
From: Michael Garland <garland@cs.cmu.edu>
To: Tom@Toms.Net
Subject: tomsrtbt turns off backlight

I just downloaded the tomsrtbt-1.7.88 package, and tried booting it on
my laptop. When the kernel starts up, it turns the backlight off, which
naturally makes it kind of hard to use the system. From what I hear,
this is due to mis-identification of the CL7555 video chip by the
kernel.

Fortunately, this problem can be easily fixed by #undef'ing
CONFIG_VIDEO_SVGA in the arch/i386/boot/video.S file. Evidently, this
is the default behavior in the 2.1.x kernels, so I don't think making
this change would have any negative consequences.

-Mike

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Michael Garland                           |  Computer Science Department
garland@cs.cmu.edu                        |  Carnegie Mellon University
http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~garland/home.html  |




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