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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 13-02-22 03:52 PM, Alex Deucher
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<pre wrap="">On Fri, Feb 22, 2013 at 3:39 PM, James Cobban <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:webmaster@jamescobban.net"><webmaster@jamescobban.net></a> wrote:
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<pre wrap="">Please I STILL need to know what command to issue to the Xorg driver to turn
on the light on my laptop when I open the lid! If the answer is RTFM, then
tell me where the FM is!
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There is no command. The driver should take care of it. If it's not
working, you'll need to file a bug:
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://bugs.freedesktop.org">https://bugs.freedesktop.org</a>
However to properly debug we'll need to know if you tried any of the
suggestions from my previous email and whether any of them helped.
Alex
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It is frustrating for you to repeat about how "The driver should
take care of it." When the driver is NOT taking care of it.<br>
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It does not make sense that it is a bug. The driver correctly opens
the display on a reboot. The only time it doesn't is on opening the
lid. But the driver has to be TOLD the lid has opened, and there is
nothing in the lid.sh script that is doing that. Certainly the
proprietary driver has to be told. The Xorg driver is behaving
EXACTLY like the proprietary driver does if you don't run the
aticonfig script to update the lid.sh script and add the command to
TELL the driver to turn the light on. Furthermore if it was a bug
surely I would not be the only person in the world who is
encountering this problem. <br>
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I already told you that trying to set the brightness did nothing.
The problem is not the brightness it is that the flourescent light
bulb that illuminates the LCDs is not being turned on!<br>
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This is a pain because every time it happens I have to reconfigure
my system back to the proprietary driver before I can get any work
done, including posting to this mailing list, to ask what to do
next.<br>
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Switching drivers is non-trivial. I do not want to switch back to
the Xorg driver until I have something concrete that I can do
because not being able to close the lid of my laptop is a show
stopper.<br>
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