Re: [PATCH] toshiba_acpi: Add support for transflective LCD

From: Matthew Garrett
Date: Tue Mar 13 2012 - 13:07:17 EST


On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 02:04:47AM +0900, Akio Idehara wrote:

> BTW, I have one question about disabling backlight interface.
> My toshiba laptop has three sysfs backlight interfaces,
> "acpi_video0", "intel_backlight" and "toshiba".
> Fedora16 is always using "acpi_video0" interface.
> If I add acpi_backlight=vendor in boot param,
> then Fedora16 uses "intel_backlight".
> # "toshiba" is lowest priority.
> So I want to know how to disable "intel_backlight" interface.
> Or enable "toshiba" interface only.

There's no general way to - the acpi interface, if present, should
always be the preferred one. Hooking the transflective control into that
is going to be more difficult.

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