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    SubjectRe: [PATCH] Added backlight driver for Acer Aspire 4736
    On Mon, Mar 12, 2012 at 11:12:17PM -0400, Pradeep Subrahmanion wrote:
    > Hi ,
    >
    > Brightness control was not working on Acer Aspire 4736 using default ACPI interface. acer-acpi also do not support 4730 series since it uses new WMI interface.
    > This driver adds brightness control by accessing the LBB PCI configuration register. This approach may also work on other laptops in 4730 series .But currently , it is only tested for
    > Aspire 4736.

    1) If there's a WMI interface to brightness control, why not use that?
    2) You're hitting a hardware resource that belongs to the i915 driver,
    which may well cause problems.
    3) Why does the ACPI interface not work? Can you attach the acpidump
    output?

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    Matthew Garrett | mjg59@srcf.ucam.org


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