Re: [PATCH 2/2] platform/x86: panasonic-laptop: allow to use all hotkeys

[Hans de Goede]

Hi,

On 6/21/22 19:54, Stefan Seyfried wrote:
> Hi Hans,
> 
> the patched ACPI video module DOES WORK.
> 
> I just managed to actually compile the unmodified source code m(
> After patching acpi_video.c, compiling and installing it so that it actually gets used, everything works fine now.

Great, that is good news. Thank you.

So if Kenneth can figure out why the i8042 filter is not working,
then we can hopefully fix this with my original series + the 2 extra
patches. And then this will be fixed without needing any DMI matches
and generic fixes are always better :)

Regards,

Hans




> 
> On 21.06.22 12:23, Stefan Seyfried wrote:
>> Hi Hans,
>>
>> On 21.06.22 11:26, Hans de Goede wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> On 6/20/22 20:10, Stefan Seyfried wrote:
>>>> Well, the non-working backlight is coming from the i915 driver, but as this is a very old Chipset (i855 GM) I'd rather be happy it works at all instead of complaining ;-)
>>>> (I have another machine of similar age, hp nc6000 with ati graphics, and there is no way getting it to work somewhat reliably at all)
>>>
>>> Ah right, you've got a panasonic + a native intel backlight device.
>>>
>>> We are going to need a quirk to (eventually also depending on other changes)
>>> disable the broken intel backlight device.
>>>
>>> But that won't fix the keys issue, at least not without an extra
>>> quirk just for that.
>>>
>>> I wonder if your machine supports the backlight control part of
>>> the ACPI video bus at all. If not that would explain why it is
>>> not reporting brightness keys and that would also give us a way
>>> to solve this without an extra quirk.
>>>
>>> And that would actually also avoid the need for a backlight
>>> quirk too.
>>>
>>> Can you pass "acpi_backlight=video" on the kernel commandline
>>> and see if a /sys/class/backlight/acpi_video0 device then
>>> shows up. If it does _not_ show up then indeed there is no
>>> ACPI backlight control at all.
>>
>> Nothing new shows up, just panasonic and intel_backlight as before.
>>
>>> In that case please give the attached patches a try on top
>>> of my last series.
>>
>> they do not fix the brightness keys for me.
> 
> YES they do fix it. I just need to actually use the patched module :-)
> 
>> I did not have time to put in some debugging and will be traveling for the rest of the week, but I'll take the toughbook with me and will try to debug this later ;-)
>>
>>> The acpi_video patch should fix your brightness keys then and
>>
>> apparently it does not :-(
> It does.
> 
> Thanks
>     Stefan