From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel•crashing.org>
To: Frank Murphy <murphyf+xfree86@f-m•fm>
Cc: debian-x@lists•debian.org, linuxppc-dev list <linuxppc-dev@ozlabs•org>
Subject: Re: G3 iBook LCD brightness in X under kernel 2.4.25 and 2.6.8
Date: Tue, 30 Nov 2004 08:56:49 +1100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1101765409.15462.3.camel@gaston> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1101721355.31317.209633721@webmail.messagingengine.com>
On Mon, 2004-11-29 at 10:42 +0100, Frank Murphy wrote:
> It probably is. But it's strange because I use all the same software
> except the kernel to get this behavior. So there's something with the
> kernel / X interface that has changed, either for 2.6 or the way Debian
> builds 2.6. I have a hard time with this because there are so many
> interactions: is it the PMU? The APM emulation? X driver? Kernel
> driver? I don't have a good idea about how these things interact.
>
> Let me know what you find out.
It has to do with interactions between the X driver and the atyfb driver
I suppose...
Ben.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-11-29 21:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <200411232008.16854.murphyf+xfree86@f-m.fm>
2004-11-26 10:28 ` G3 iBook LCD brightness in X under kernel 2.4.25 and 2.6.8 Christof Petig
2004-11-26 15:38 ` murphyf+xfree86
2004-11-27 1:02 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2004-11-27 8:48 ` Frank Murphy
2004-11-28 1:58 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2004-11-28 20:14 ` Frank Murphy
2004-11-28 20:39 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2004-11-29 9:42 ` Frank Murphy
2004-11-29 17:17 ` Christof Petig
2004-11-30 8:02 ` Christof Petig
2004-11-30 9:05 ` Frank Murphy
2004-12-01 8:25 ` murphyf+xfree86
2004-11-29 21:56 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt [this message]
2004-11-29 0:45 ` Christof Petig
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