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Re: Call for Testing: Updated Apple backlight driver

 

On 01/02/12 03:25, Seth Forshee wrote:
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> Hi all,
> 
> I've been doing some work on the Apple backlight driver in the Linux
> kernel to get support for adjusting the screen brightness via the gmux
> device. This will hopefully get working screen brightness adjustment for
> all Macs that that don't currently have it. This support has been
> floating around in various forms for a while now, and what I'm trying to
> do is get it into stock Ubuntu so brightness adjustment will work
> out-of-the box, more or less.
> 
> The driver changes are pretty much complete, and now I'd like to get
> testing on as many different Apple models as possible. If you've got a
> machine with a built-in dispaly and would be willing to test, please
> visit the following page for instructions on how you can help.
> 
>   https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/AppleGmuxBacklight
> 
> Thanks for helping! Feel free to contact me if you have any problems
> with the instructions or encounter any problems with the test driver.
> 
> Seth
> 
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Hi Seth

Great to see some more traction on this (I've personally done some work
on it myself (reverse engineering the need to write out the low
brightness value bytes then flush to hardware with 0 at highest byte) so
am glad to see it perhaps make it into mainline - although your version
looks a lot cleaner than what I was working with - originally derived
from Matthew Garrett's work... - which is really nice to see.

Anyway, I can confirm it works on my MacBook Pro 5,1 running Oneiric
booting via EFI (and hence with backlight controlled via gmux) - great work.

Would be great to see this get pushed into the upstream Linux kernel too
rather than just carried as a patch in Ubuntu (although I can imagine
its too late for the Precise kernel now anway).

Cheers
Alex


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