Re: no backlight on radeon after recent kernel "upgrade"s

From: Alex Romosan
Date: Wed Feb 21 2007 - 23:05:05 EST


Richard Purdie writes:

> Can you have a look at the differences between the defconfigs for
> 2.6.20 and 2.6.21-rc1?

this is probably the relevant part:

--- config-2.6.20 2007-02-04 12:09:28.000000000 -0800
+++ config-2.6.21-rc1 2007-02-21 08:37:53.000000000 -0800
@@ -1270,16 +1302,25 @@
#
# Graphics support
#
-CONFIG_FIRMWARE_EDID=y
+CONFIG_BACKLIGHT_LCD_SUPPORT=y
+CONFIG_BACKLIGHT_CLASS_DEVICE=y
+CONFIG_LCD_CLASS_DEVICE=y
+# CONFIG_BACKLIGHT_PROGEAR is not set
CONFIG_FB=y
+CONFIG_FIRMWARE_EDID=y
CONFIG_FB_DDC=y
CONFIG_FB_CFB_FILLRECT=y
CONFIG_FB_CFB_COPYAREA=y
CONFIG_FB_CFB_IMAGEBLIT=y
+# CONFIG_FB_SVGALIB is not set
# CONFIG_FB_MACMODES is not set
-# CONFIG_FB_BACKLIGHT is not set
+CONFIG_FB_BACKLIGHT=y
CONFIG_FB_MODE_HELPERS=y
CONFIG_FB_TILEBLITTING=y
+
+#
+# Frambuffer hardware drivers
+#
# CONFIG_FB_CIRRUS is not set
# CONFIG_FB_PM2 is not set
# CONFIG_FB_CYBER2000 is not set
@@ -1297,9 +1338,11 @@
# CONFIG_FB_MATROX is not set
CONFIG_FB_RADEON=y
CONFIG_FB_RADEON_I2C=y
+CONFIG_FB_RADEON_BACKLIGHT=y
# CONFIG_FB_RADEON_DEBUG is not set
# CONFIG_FB_ATY128 is not set
# CONFIG_FB_ATY is not set
+# CONFIG_FB_S3 is not set
# CONFIG_FB_SAVAGE is not set
# CONFIG_FB_SIS is not set
# CONFIG_FB_NEOMAGIC is not set
@@ -1333,11 +1376,6 @@
# CONFIG_LOGO_LINUX_MONO is not set
# CONFIG_LOGO_LINUX_VGA16 is not set
CONFIG_LOGO_LINUX_CLUT224=y
-CONFIG_BACKLIGHT_LCD_SUPPORT=y
-CONFIG_BACKLIGHT_CLASS_DEVICE=y
-CONFIG_BACKLIGHT_DEVICE=y
-CONFIG_LCD_CLASS_DEVICE=m
-CONFIG_LCD_DEVICE=y

#
# Sound


> If the backlight changes are at fault, I'm guessing James' Kconfig
> changes to the video Kconfig would be the culprit since
> FB_RADEON_BACKLIGHT only used to be selectable if PMAC_BACKLIGHT was
> enabled. On a thinkpad, the backlight is probably under ACPI
> control.

there was no FB_RADEON_BACKLIGHT in 2.6.20 and CONFIG_FB_BACKLIGHT
wasn't set.

> If FB_RADEON_BACKLIGHT wasn't set for 2.6.20, can you try 2.6.21-rc1
> with that option disabled?

i'll try recompiling without this option and let you know what happened.

> An ls /sys/class/backlight under 2.6.20 will tell us which driver it
> was using...

ls /sys/class/backlight/
0 ./ 0 ../ 0 ibm/

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