Bug 1878
| Summary: | screen controls dont work under ACPI | ||
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| Product: | ACPI | Reporter: | Alexei Gilchrist (alexei) |
| Component: | Power-Video | Assignee: | Len Brown (lenb) |
| Status: | REJECTED DUPLICATE | ||
| Severity: | normal | CC: | acpi-bugzilla |
| Priority: | P2 | ||
| Hardware: | i386 | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
| Kernel Version: | 2.6.1 | Subsystem: | |
| Regression: | --- | Bisected commit-id: | |
screen control this is a missing feature, Linux doesn't have an ACPI video control driver. Probably it should. Right now there is an extras driver for toshiba and asus, but they should probably be replaced by more general code... |
Distribution:Debian unstable Hardware Environment:Panasonic W2 laptop Software Environment:Kernel 2.6.{0test9,0test11,1}, 2.4.*, both with minimal options (eg no usb etc) and with full options compiled in Problem Description: screen brigthness controls and switching to external screen don't work with ACPI (they do under APM) see bug# 1877 for dmesg, acpidmp, dmidecode and interupts Steps to reproduce: boot with ACPI, try Fn-{F1,F2,F3}